Marilyn vos Savant Quotes - Page 3

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• Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.

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  Future, Mirrors, Faces

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• Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read

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  Literature, Habit, Subscription

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• 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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  Sunset, Sky, Sunrise

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• 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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  Want, Stuff, Way

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• 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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  Thinking, Judging, May

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• The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time. The difference between an autobiography and an unauthorized biography is like the difference between an account of your life written by your mother and one written by your mother-in-law.

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  Mother, Distance, Thinking

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• Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

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  Able, Speak, Excellent

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• Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

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  Long, Casinos, Term

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• I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.

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  Believe, Thinking, Lovers

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• Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.

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  Causes, Donation, Profit

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• Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

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  New York, Skills, Trying

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

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  Experts, Tasks

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• 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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  Love, Gratitude, Expectations

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• A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.

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  Leadership, Needs, Followers

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• 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

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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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• A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.

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  Trying, Three, Balls

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• 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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  Believe, Talent, Born

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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

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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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• Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.

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  Office, Literature, Knows

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• The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.

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  Real, Men, Two

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• 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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  Rejection, Used, Ends

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• 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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  Children, Home, Office

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• 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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  Games, Play, Literature

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