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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read

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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
Columnist
Journalist
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St. Louis
Missouri
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Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.
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Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.
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Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.
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Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
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Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
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Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.
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If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
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Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.
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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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I believe that one becomes stronger emotionally by taking life less personally. If your employer criticizes your report, don't take it personally. Instead, find out what's needed and fix it. If your girlfriend laughs at your tie, don't take it personally. Find another tie or find another girlfriend.
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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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I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.
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The lower our self-esteem, the more we're attracted to our opposite, and the higher our self-esteem, the more we are attracted to another like ourselves.
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The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.
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If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.
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One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.
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An ounce of sequins can be worth a pound of home cooking.
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Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.
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You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know.
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Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.
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