Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.
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Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.
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Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.
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Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.
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Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.
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Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.
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Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
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Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.
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Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.
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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 in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.
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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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Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
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Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.
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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 is totally disorganized.
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Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
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Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.
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Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
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Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?
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I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.
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