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The lower our self-esteem, the more we're attracted to our opposite, and the higher our self-esteem, the more we are attracted to another like ourselves.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
Columnist
Journalist
Playwright
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
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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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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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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 draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.
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A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.
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What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom to and freedom from.
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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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Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
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Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
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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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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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Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.
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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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The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
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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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Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
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Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.
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Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.
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If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
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What women want is what men want. They want respect.
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