Marilyn Vos Savant

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To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe

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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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Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent

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Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person

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I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children in modern society] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there, and they are taught and told what to believe; they are passive from the very beginning – and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is 'taught.' Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told?