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Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
Columnist
Journalist
Playwright
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Ability
Whatever
Happiness
Happy
Success
May
Stuck

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Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.
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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 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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How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if we are entitled to the labor of others, that makes slaves of those others.
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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 what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.
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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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Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.
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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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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read
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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 correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
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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 confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
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An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.
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