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Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors.
Marilyn vos Savant
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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
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An ounce of sequins can be worth a pound of home cooking.
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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 able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.
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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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Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
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Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.
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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.
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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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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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Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
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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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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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...there are days when I feel I can do anything and days when I feel I can do nothing. But fortunately for those around me, neither sort occurs very often.
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If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
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Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.
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It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.
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Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.
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Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.
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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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