Top 100 Marilyn Vos Savant Quotes
#1. You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know.
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#2. Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
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#3. 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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#4. Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.
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#5. 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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#6. The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.
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#7. 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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#9. Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.
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#10. 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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#11. Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.
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#12. 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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#13. Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
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#14. 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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#16. Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.
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#17. Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.
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#18. Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store.
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#19. [Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do.
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#20. Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.
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#21. Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.
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#22. Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.
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#23. Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.
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#24. Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.
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#25. Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.
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#26. 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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#27. You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.
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#28. The original answer defines certain conditions, [ ... ] Anything else is a different question.
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#29. Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.
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#30. Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.
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#31. [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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#32. A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience.
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#33. Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.
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#34. Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever enlarging life.
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#35. Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
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#36. Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.
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#37. Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.
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#38. Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.
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#39. 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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#40. Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
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#42. 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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#43. Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.
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#45. 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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#46. Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.
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#47. Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.
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#48. Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you.
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#49. Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.
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#50. 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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#51. Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
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#52. If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
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#53. Try square dancing-at least long enough to no longer feel silly and begin to have fun.
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#55. It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.
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#56. When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.
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#57. When you're in a good mood, bring up the past. When you're in a bad mood, stick to the present. And when you're not feeling emotional at all, it's time to talk about the future.
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#58. Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
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#62. 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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#63. Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.
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#65. Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?
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#66. Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.
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#68. Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.
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#69. The magnitude of an action may change not only the strength of its impact, but the direction. If you became a dentist, for example, you would certainly be an asset to our society. But what if everyone became a dentist? Who would bake the bread? Who would build the houses?
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#70. What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'
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#71. Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
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#72. Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.
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#73. Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
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#74. To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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#75. 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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#77. Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.
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#78. The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.
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#79. Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.
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#80. 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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#81. Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.
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#82. 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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#83. Almost all of the finer things in life are free or nearly free. You don't have to pay for the sky at night or snow in the morning or a kiss on the nose when you're sick. Forgetting that may put you at the mercy of those who seek to profit by convincing you to want whatever it is they have to sell.
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#84. Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.
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#85. Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.
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#86. Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.
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#88. An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own
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#89. Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.
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#90. Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.
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#91. Know how to drive safely when it's raining or when it's snowing. The two conditions are different.
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#92. Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
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#94. While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
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#95. Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.
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#96. Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
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#97. 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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#98. Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
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#99. Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.
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#100. 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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