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• Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer.

  Gracie Allen

  Men, Thinking, Brain

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• The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The average -- or only slightly above average -- detective story does.... Whereas the good novel is not at all the same kind of book as the bad novel. It is about entirely different things. But the good detective story and the bad detective story are about exactly the same things, and they are about them in very much the same way.

  Raymond Chandler

  Book, Doe, Different

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• Through TV and moving pictures a child may see more violence in thirty minutes than the average adult experiences in a lifetime. What children see on the screen is violence as an almost casual commonplace of daily living. Violence becomes the fundamental principle of society, the natural law of humanity. Killing is as common as taking a walk, a gun more natural than an umbrella. Children learn to take pride in force and to feel ashamed of ordinary sympathy. They are encouraged to forget that people have feelings.

  Fredric Wertham

  Children, Moving, Pride

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• When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when people who earn less than average have the deficiency , or the greater part of it, turned over to them in hand-outs and doles, the production of all must sharply decline; for the energetic and able who lose their incentive to produce more than the average, and the slothful and unskilled lose their incentive to improve their condition.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Hands, People, Incentives

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.122, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The average person is unaware that he or she is living out a negative destiny according to his or her past (childhood) programming, preserving his or her familiar identity, and, in the process, pushing love away. On an unconscious level, many people sense that if they did not push love away, the whole world, as they have experienced it, would be shattered and they would not know who they were.

  Robert W. Firestone

  Past, Destiny, People

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• I have, in the past, been attracted to really strong and dominant men. But on the other side, I have been attracted to very androgynous men. I don't typically fall for your average jock. I just like people that are a little atypical.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Strong, Fall, Past

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• I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did that. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy - that's it, successful, happy, and on time.

  Marilyn

  Children, Successful, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Art, Civilization, Alive

  G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.163, Read Books Ltd

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• Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.

  John Updike

  Book, Kissing, Hands

  John Updike (2008). “Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism”, p.68, Random House

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• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  J. Cole

  Rap, Writing, Trying

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• It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.

  Larry Wall

  Attendance, Easy, Conferences

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• Everyone thinks their baby is a genius. People find it delightfully refreshing when I tell them, My baby? Totally average. Like, 100 percent average.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Baby, Thinking, People

  "Ryan Reynolds Is So Happy He Doesn't Have a Son, Hated Filming With Cats" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 05, 2015.

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• I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort.

  James M. Cain

  Country, Writing, Character

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• If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.

  Robert Breault

  Truth, Lying, There Is No God

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• The average person is allergic to the words of wisdom.

  Lowkey

  Words Of Wisdom, Allergic, Persons

  Song: Voices of the Voiceless

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• Say that Congress legislates gasoline price controls that sets a maximum price of $1 a gallon. As sure as night follows day, there'd be long lines and gasoline shortages, just as there were in the 1970s. For the average consumer, a $1.60 a gallon selling price and no waiting lines is a darn sight cheaper than a controlled $1 a gallon price plus searching for a gasoline station that has gas and then waiting in line. If your average purchase is 10 gallons, and if an hour or so of your time is worth more that $6, the $1.60 a gallon free market price is cheaper.

  Walter E. Williams

  Night, Sight, Gasoline Prices

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• This Fruity Pebble that ya dealin' with, I ain't ya average jabroni. I'm like a big purple pinwheel, Rock, so go ahead and blow me.

  John Cena

  Blow, Wwe, Purple

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• In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.

  Naoto Kan

  Japan, Population, Aging

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• On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.

  Jon Stewart

  Society, Three, News

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• To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse

  H. L. Mencken

  Media, Belief, Newspapers

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• We play in the ocean every day but for some reason we don’t make as much noise about the environment as we should. I believe the average surfer needs to do a lot more to become a greater catalyst for change

  Mark Price

  Believe, Ocean, Catalyst For Change

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• Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there.

  Rick Reilly

  Player, Nfl, Scotch

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• I'm talking about psychic powers coming down to the everyday, average person. We're able to do things that are emerging. We're slowly beginning to realize that whatever you think and feel can manifest directly in the outer world.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Thinking, Talking, Psychics

  Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com

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• I don’t recommend that average iPad Air owners upgrade to the Air 2. But what about the vast majority of iPad owners who own older models? That’s a different story. If you have an iPad 2, 3 or 4, the new Air 2 will make a big difference. Its thinness and lightness will be a dramatic change, and it will be faster and more fluid. However, here’s the catch: Upgrading to last year’s iPad Air would have pretty much the same effect, and that model is now, suddenly, $100 cheaper, starting at $399.

  Walt Mossberg

  Air, Years, Ipads

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• Many teachers are concerned about the amount of material they must cover in a course. One cynic suggested a formula: since, he said, students on the average remember only about 40% of what you tell them, the thing to do is to cram into each course 250% of what you hope will stick.

  Paul Halmos

  Education, Teacher, Math

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