"Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized."
-Marilyn vos Savant
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"Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.“
-Marilyn vos Savant
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"Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause."
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