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• The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Father, Humor

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• The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

  Crystal Eastman

  Ignorance, Men, Numbers

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

  Sherrod Brown

  Struggle, Income, Needs

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• The average Christian leaves planet earth never having led anyone to Christ.

  George Barna

  Christian, Religion, Earth

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• You were born awesome. Please don't die average.

  Robin Sharma

  Powerful, Born, Please

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Aug 01, 2014

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• The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.

  Robert Breault

  Long, Optimism, Benefits

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• I have but nothing to say to young girls. They're fine to look at, in the way I would look at a case filled with Shang dynasty glazes, but expecting to carry on a conversation with the average teen-aged young lady is akin to reading Voltaire to a cage filled with chimpanzees. I'm certain they would feel the same alienation for me. I can live with that knowledge.

  Harlan Ellison

  Girl, Women, Reading

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled”, p.278, Open Road Media

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• I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Women, Home, Creative

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• The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Women, Order, Likes

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• While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.

  Elizur Wright

  Powerful, Science, Single Life

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• Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell that causes your pernicious anaemia, or you can take Vitamin B12. If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. If you're interested in the sex of your unborn child, you can consult plumb-bob danglers all you want . . . but they'll be right, on average, only one time in two. If you want real accuracy . . . try amniocentesis and sonograms. Try science.

  Carl Sagan

  Sex, Children, Real

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• The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share

  Jaron Lanier

  Thinking, People, Decision

  "My bright idea: Jaron Lanier". Interview With Aleks Krotoski, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

  Clay Shirky

  Law, Definitions, Firsts

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.114, Penguin UK

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• The rules have changed so much from our days and the Heatu2019s days. It was more physical back then. Today you can run around without getting touched. Today, Michael Jordan would average about 45 points.

  Horace Grant

  Running, Today, Jordan

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• You know what the average person is? Average.

  Richard Jeni

  Average Person, Persons, Knows

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• People who keep dogs live longer on average than those who do not. This is not some kind of pro-canine campaigning fantasy. It is a simple medical fact that the calming influence of the company of a friendly pet animal reduces blood pressure and therefore
  the risk of heart attack.

  Desmond Morris

  Friendship, Dog, Heart

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• I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time.

  David Dreman

  Book, Yield, Cash Flow

  "Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Classic Edition". Book by David Dreman, May 18, 1998.

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• It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

  David Whyte

  Narrative, Truthful, Realistic

  "The Poetic Narrative Of Our Times" by David Whyte, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.

  Francis Atterbury

  Differences, Details, Attention

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• I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely 'normal' life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more - much, much more.

  Melody Carlson

  New Day, Hopeful, Ordinary

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• To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

  Shane Koyczan

  Discovery, Deep Thought, Firsts

  Twitter post from Aug 29, 2013

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• When you have big dreams, you’re going to have big challenges. If you were an average person you would have average problems.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Dream, Challenges

  Twitter post from Sep 22, 2013

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• A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Doctors, Medicine

  Mark Twain (2010). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.137, Univ of California Press

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• The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.

  Seth Godin

  Winning, Settling, Bigs

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• The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.

  Bernard Williams

  Father, Men, Pirate

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