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Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.

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

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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 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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Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

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Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

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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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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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I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.

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

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

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Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.

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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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Know how to drive safely when it's raining or when it's snowing. The two conditions are different.

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Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.

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Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors.

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I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.

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Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.

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The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

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Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

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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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Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?

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Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.

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Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

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Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

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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.

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Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

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A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.

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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.

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

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Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

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Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.

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Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

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Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

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Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.

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