Marilyn vos Savant Quotes - Page 5

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• An ounce of sequins can be worth a pound of home cooking.

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  Fashion, Home, Cooking

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• One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.

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  Practice, Benefits, Violin

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• Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

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  Travel, Car, Towns

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• Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

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  Thinking, House, Cards

  Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 1991.

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• ...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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  Feels, Can Do, I Can

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• I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.

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  Motivational, Strong, Gay

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• Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store.

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  Voice, Retail, Stores

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• Try square dancing-at least long enough to no longer feel silly and begin to have fun.

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  Fun, Silly, Squares

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• Know how to drive safely when it's raining or when it's snowing. The two conditions are different.

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  Rain, Two, Snow

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• Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

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  Blow, Flying, Literature

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• Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

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  Attention, Literature, Causes

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• Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

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  Literature, Able, Scene

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• 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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  School, Self, Boots

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• 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

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• 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

  Light Posters, Utah University, mrscienceut.net.

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• Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.

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  Literature, Serious, Crime

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• Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.

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  Literature, Individual, Bankruptcy

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

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  Punishment, Argument, Source

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

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  Believe, Two, Tasks

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• Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.

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  Dog, Cat, Sight

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• No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

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  Trying, Tasks, Done

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• Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.

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  Country, Moving, Love You

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• 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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  Differences, Phones, Cells

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• Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.

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  Issues, Literature, States

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