Able Quote by Marilyn vos Savant

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

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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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Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

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If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you're never at home.

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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…

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

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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 wether you have a…

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What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'

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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…

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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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A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you.

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Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of…

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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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