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Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
Columnist
Journalist
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St. Louis
Missouri
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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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Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
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Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.
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The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.
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Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
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An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.
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Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
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Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.
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Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.
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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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Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.
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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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Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
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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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To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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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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Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.
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Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.
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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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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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