Marilyn vos Savant Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

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  Weekend, Bed, Literature

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

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  Essence, America, Literature

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

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  Struggle, Eye, Literature

• A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

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  Good Morning, Good Night, Good Day

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

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  Literature, Able, Way

• 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

• 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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  Teenage, Blessing, Thinking

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

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  Stories, Literature, Able

• While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

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  Writing, Literature, Wells

• 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

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• 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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  Literature, Language, Spoken English

• 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

• Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

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  Quality, Three, Literature

• 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

• 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

• Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

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  Book, Reading, Waiting

• 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.

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  Communication, Phones, Cells

• 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

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

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  Funny, Witty, Humorous

• 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

• Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

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  Mother, Father, Secret

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

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  Long, Target, Use

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

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  Witty, Shopping, Literature

• 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

• 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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