Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side... view

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Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception... view

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Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight... view

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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... view

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Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary... view

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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... view

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Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news... view

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Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process... view

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Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country... view

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Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity... view

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Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal... view

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Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you... view

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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... view

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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... view

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Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them... view

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Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best... view

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Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues... view

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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... view

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Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker... view

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Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments... view

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Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list... view

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Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life... view

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Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head... view

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Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent... view

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Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom... view

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Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail... view

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Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin... view

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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read... view

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Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much... view

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Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself... view

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No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time... view

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Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward... view

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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... view

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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... view

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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... view

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Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad... view

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Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption... view

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Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time... view

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Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering... view

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Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?.. view

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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... view

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I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems... view

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