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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
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St. Louis
Missouri
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Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
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Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.
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Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
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The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.
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Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.
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Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.
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Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.
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Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.
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...there are days when I feel I can do anything and days when I feel I can do nothing. But fortunately for those around me, neither sort occurs very often.
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I believe Picasso's success is just one small part of the broader modern phenomenon of artists themselves rejecting serious art- perhaps partly because serious art takes so much time and energy and talent to produce-in favor of what I call `impulse art': art work that is quick and easy, at least by comparison.
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I love having ten times as much stuff to do as I can possibly find time to do. That way, I can pick the one-tenth that I want to do most. But if I only have enough to just occupy all my time, I'm stuck doing all of whatever stuff it happens to be.
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A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
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Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
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Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.
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Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.
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Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
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The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
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I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.
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The magnitude of an action may change not only the strength of its impact, but the direction. If you became a dentist, for example, you would certainly be an asset to our society. But what if everyone became a dentist? Who would bake the bread? Who would build the houses?
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A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.
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