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


Marilyn vos Savant

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Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.
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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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Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
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Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
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Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.
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Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you.
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Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
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Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.
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The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less...
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I don't understand why they are so keen to stay in the IMF.
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Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
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I've found that most so-called sources are full of error and bias.
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They are in the music business.
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If you lose who you are, what do you have?
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I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.
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A smart girl leaves before she is left.
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How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.
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An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
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Friends accept you the way you are.
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I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.
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We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
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I don't digest things with my mind.
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It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
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I like to feel blonde all over.
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The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
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A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
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When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.
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A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
MARILYN MONROE
I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
MARILYN MONROE
Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do...
MARILYN MONROE
I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
MARILYN MONROE
If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
MARILYN MONROE
All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about m...
MARILYN MONROE
It's all make believe, isn't it?
MARILYN MONROE
My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick ...
MARILYN MONROE
You know, most people really don't know me.
MARILYN MONROE
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
MARILYN MONROE
One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females...
MARILYN MONROE
I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
MARILYN MONROE
I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.
MARILYN MONROE
Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up...
MARILYN MONROE
The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our opennes...
MARILYN FERGUSON
Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
MARILYN MONROE
Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
MARILYN MONROE
We are going to see a burst of creativity that will make the Renaissance pale in comparison.
MARILYN FERGUSON
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to ...
MARILYN FRENCH
I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
MARILYN MONROE
Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but magnified the ...
MARILYN FRENCH
In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religi...
MARILYN MANSON
The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, &...
MARILYN MONROE
I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The gi...
MARILYN MONROE
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
MARILYN MONROE
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid ...
MARILYN FRENCH
Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.
MARILYN MANSON
If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally re...
MARILYN MANSON
Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.
MARILYN MONROE
Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've exper...
MARILYN MONROE
To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the ...
MARILYN MONROE
No one ever called me pretty when I was a little girl
MARILYN MONROE
It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
MARILYN MONROE
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I...
MARILYN MONROE
In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, ...
MARILYN MONROE
Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
MARILYN MONROE