Marilyn vos Savant Quotes - Page 4

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• Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.

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  Causes, Donation, Profit

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• Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

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  People, Tasks, Needs

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• I?d rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.

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  Rejection, Used, Ends

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• Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors.

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  Treats, Know How, Knows

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

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  Witty, Shopping, Literature

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• People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.

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  People, Progress, Should

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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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  Food, Eye, Literature

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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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  Would Be, Done, Literature

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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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  Heart, Secret, Promise

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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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  Art, Believe, Energy

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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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  Strong, Perfect, Negative

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• [When asked if the voice is an instrument:] Yes, of course. Some are violins, some are fountain pens and some are stethoscopes. And others are just washboards.

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  Voice, Violin, Fountain

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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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  Writing, Literature, Wells

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

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  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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

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  Long, Target, Use

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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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  Aggravation, Able, Decline

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• Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.

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  Buffets, Helping, Clean

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• Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.

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  Dining, Sitting, Tables

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• The original answer defines certain conditions. Anything else is a different question.

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  Different, Answers, Certain

  "Ask Marilyn" column, Parade Magazine, February 17, 1991.

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• Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

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  Thinking, House, Cards

  Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 1991.

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• One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.

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  Practice, Benefits, Violin

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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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  Motivational, Strong, Gay

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• Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store.

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  Voice, Retail, Stores

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• ...there are days when I feel I can do anything and days when I feel I can do nothing. But fortunately for those around me, neither sort occurs very often.

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  Feels, Can Do, I Can

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• Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

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  Blow, Flying, Literature

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