Marilyn vos Savant Quotes
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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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The original answer defines certain conditions, ... Anything else is a different question.
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Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.
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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.
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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 keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.
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Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
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Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.
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Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
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Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.
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Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
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What women want is what men want. They want respect.
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Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.
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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 analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
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If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.
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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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Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
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Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.
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A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.
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Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
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Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
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Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
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Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.