Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

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• To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  "Courage: the heart and spirit of every woman : reclaiming the forgotten virtue". Book by Sandra Ford Walston, 2001.

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• There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

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  Courage, World, Plenty

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• Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

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  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good". Book by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, 1987.

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• Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.

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  Criticism, Fine, Polish

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• Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

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  Literature, Able, Way

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• You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

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  Wise, Intelligent, Being Wise

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• An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.

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  Mistake, Errors, Refuse

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• One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron.

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  Inspirational, Men, Trying

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• The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.

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  Age, Problem, Psychological

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• The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

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  Life, Education, Math

  The Reader's Digest, Vol. 140, p. 194, 1992.

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• A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.

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  Doe, Fool, Pencils

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• Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You'll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too.

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  Self Esteem, Safe Environment, Pay

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• If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.

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  Succeed, Judgment, Achieve

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Morning, Kissing, Night

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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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• Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.

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  Happiness, Success, May

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• If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

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  Sweet Love, Heart, Firsts

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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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• 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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  Thinking, Jumping, Lessons

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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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• 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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  Emotional, Past, Feelings

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