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Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
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St. Louis
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Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.
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Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
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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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Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
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Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.
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Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.
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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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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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Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the group. In the garden of life, some people are more like flowers, and other people are more like weeds.
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Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.
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Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
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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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If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.
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Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.
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Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors.
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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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An ounce of sequins can be worth a pound of home cooking.
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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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Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.
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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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