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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.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
Columnist
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St. Louis
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When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.
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Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.
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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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Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.
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Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
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Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
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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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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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Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.
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Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
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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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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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Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them
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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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Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
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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 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.
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A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
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