Marilyn vos Savant Quotes
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You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.
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Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
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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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My thoughts are like waffles - the first few don't look so good.
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An ounce of sequins can be worth a pound of home cooking.
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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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Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.
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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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The original answer defines certain conditions. Anything else is a different question.
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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 what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.
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If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read
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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 sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.
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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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Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.
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Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news
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Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.
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Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
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Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
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I believe a 'talented' person is one who has learned how to effectively cultivate and polish any of the many desirable capabilities with which most of us are born but few of us nurture.
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Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.
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Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.
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Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.
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Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.
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Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.
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Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.
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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.
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