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Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.

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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If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
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Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.
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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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I believe Picasso's success is just one small part of the broader modern phenomenon of artists themselves rejecting serious art- perhaps partly because serious art takes so much time and energy and talent to produce-in favor of what I call `impulse art': art work that is quick and easy, at least by comparison.
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Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
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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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Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.
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Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.
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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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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 tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you
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Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.
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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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What women want is what men want. They want respect.
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Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
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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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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 draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.
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Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.
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