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Know the official post office ...

Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.

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Know what happens when an indi...

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

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Know which officials are voted...

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

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Scientists and creationists ar...

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

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While you're writing, you can'...

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

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The difference between talking...

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.

Marilyn vos Savant 232 quotes

Working in an office with an a...

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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Many people feel they must mul...

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

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The chess player who develops ...

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

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Relatively few of us will find...

Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever enlarging life.

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How can we live in freedom and...

How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if we are entitled to the labor of others, that makes slaves of those others.

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Everybody loves an accent. It ...

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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An act of justice closes the b...

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own

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I think one of the problems [w...

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] 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.

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Attention-deficit disorders se...

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

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Be able to keep a secret or pr...

Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.

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No one would choose to be jerk...

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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A fool is someone whose pencil...

A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.

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Think of a hypothesis as a car...

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

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Make a habit of canceling ever...

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

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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