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An ounce of sequins can be worth a pound of home cooking.
Marilyn vos Savant
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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
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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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Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.
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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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Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
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Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.
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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 analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
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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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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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Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you
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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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Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
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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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Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.
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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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A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.
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An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.
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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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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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Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
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