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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
Literature
Freedom
Individual
America

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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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Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.
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An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed an act of vengeance writes one of its own
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Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
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Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
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While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
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Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
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Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.
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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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Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
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Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.
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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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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read
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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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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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To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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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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Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.
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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 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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