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The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
Columnist
Journalist
Playwright
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Essence
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Freedom
Individual
America

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Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.
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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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Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.
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Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors.
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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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Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
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If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.
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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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The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time. The difference between an autobiography and an unauthorized biography is like the difference between an account of your life written by your mother and one written by your mother-in-law.
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The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.
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Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.
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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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What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom to and freedom from.
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I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.
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One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron.
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The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
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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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Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
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Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.
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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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