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Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.

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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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 believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.
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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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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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An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed an act of vengeance writes one of its own
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Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
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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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A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.
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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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The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.
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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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Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors.
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Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
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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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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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Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.
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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 tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you
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Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.
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Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.
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