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Marilyn Vos Savant Quotes


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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.