Marilyn vos Savant Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Kids, Order, Common Sense

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

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  Literature, Habit, Subscription

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• I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told.

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  Children, Believe, Intelligent

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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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  Girlfriend, Believe, Ties

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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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  Weed, Flower, Garden

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• Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

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  Support, Literature, Statistics

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• At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.

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  Literature, Firsts, Good Mood

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• What women want is what men want. They want respect.

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  Respect, Men, Want

  "Evergreen : A Guide to Writing with Readings". Book by Susan Fawcett, 1980.

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• Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

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  Quality, Three, Literature

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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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  Good Morning, Good Night, Good Day

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• An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own

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  Book, Writing, Justice

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• Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever enlarging life.

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  Life, Vision

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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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  Liberty, Remember, Slave

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• Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you: 'Do you want to pick door #2?' Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?

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  Doors, Games, Car

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

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  Revenge, Justice, Outsiders

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• If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you're never at home.

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  Home, Opportunity, Heard

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• What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

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  4th Of July, Patriotic, Essence

  "Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks". Book by Karen Weekes, 2007.

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

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  Confusion, News, Literature

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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.

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  People, Tasks, Literature

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• Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

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  Weekend, Bed, Literature

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

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  Taste, Truffles, Certain

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• A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you.

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  Friendship, Your Side, Sides

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• Yes. The original argument is defective. Substitute the word 'male' for 'gay,' and you'll see the flaw: 'Male people cannot be normal. If everyone were male starting tomorrow, the human race would die out, so being male cannot be nature's intended way.' Or you could substitute the word 'female.' In either case, the argument makes no sense: Being male or female is perfectly normal.

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  Gay, Perfectly Normal, Race

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• Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.

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  Mother, Mean, Law

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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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  Leadership, Needs, Followers

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