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Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
Columnist
Journalist
Playwright
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Involved
Justice
Right
Feels
Even
Outsiders
Directly
Revenge

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Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
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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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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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Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
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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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Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.
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Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.
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If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.
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Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
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The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.
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One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron.
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Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.
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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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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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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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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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While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
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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 function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
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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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