Marilyn vos Savant Quotes - Page 5

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• Know how to drive safely when it's raining or when it's snowing. The two conditions are different.

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  Rain, Two, Snow

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

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  Thinking, Literature, Want

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• The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

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  Essence, America, Literature

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• Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

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  Literature, Able, Scene

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

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  High Heels, Suffering, Literature

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• An ounce of sequins can be worth a pound of home cooking.

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  Fashion, Home, Cooking

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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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  Differences, Principles, Literature

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• The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

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  Player, Two, Boards

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• Try square dancing-at least long enough to no longer feel silly and begin to have fun.

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  Fun, Silly, Squares

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

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  Travel, Car, Towns

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• Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.

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  Illustration, Literature, Able

  Light Posters, Utah University, mrscienceut.net.

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

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  Punishment, Argument, Source

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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.

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  Sex, Emotional, Opposites

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

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  Dog, Cat, Sight

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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.

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  School, Self, Boots

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

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  Literature, Appearance, Boxes

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

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  Stories, Literature, Able

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• Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.

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  Country, Moving, Love You

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• Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

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  Attention, Literature, Causes

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• The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

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  Differences, Phones, Cells

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• Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

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  Distance, Car, Literature

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

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  Fall, Literature, Might

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

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  Hiccups, Able, Firsts

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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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  People, Literature, Poor

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

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  Reading, Prejudice, Literature

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