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• A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England

  Richard Saul Wurman

  New York, Weekdays, Information

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• A relationship means you come together to make each other better. It’s not all about you, and it’s not all about them. Its all about the relationship.
  Support them in their dreams/vision just as much as you would expect them to support you. Make each other better. Challenge each other to go beyond average. Pull out the greatness from within each other.
  Make sure they can find their biggest fan in you, and you can find yours in them.

  Trent Shelton

  Relationship, Dream, Mean

  FaceBook post by Trent Shelton from Aug 08, 2013

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• Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do.

  Heather King

  Children, Laughing, Adults

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• Do not lower the standard or cater to the worldly laxness of the average Christian by making the way in easy. Make sure that everyone who joins fully understands his duties and obligations and is willing, in Christ's strength, to undertake them.

  Isabella Macdonald Alden

  Christian, Way, Easy

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• Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. Think of the times when you rose above your average level of performance and carried out an idea or a dream or a desire for which you had deeply longed. Hang these pictures on the walls of your mind and look at them as you travel the roadway of life.

  James Whistler

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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• There are no prizes for average performance.

  Brian Tracy

  Performances, Prize

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• A coach will impact more people in one year than the average person will in an entire lifetime.

  Billy Graham

  Impact, Years, People

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• The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something he may never know

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, May, Failing

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• Our nation was built and civilized by men and women who used guns in self-defense and in pursuit of peace. One wonders indeed, if the rising crime rate, isn't due as much as anything to the criminal's instinctive knowledge that the average victim no longer has means of self-protection.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Gun, Men

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• It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Men, Littles, Dignity

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.389, e-artnow

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• [In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month out, at an average velocity of 50 m.p.h. As a source of power this compares favorably with 6,000 tons of water falling every second over Niagara Falls. I will not further anticipate some H. G. Wells of the future who will ring the antarctic with power-producing windmills; but the winds of the Antarctic have to be felt to be believed, and nothing is quite impossible to physicists and engineers.

  Frank Debenham

  Fall, Blow, Wind

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• You never have enough competition at any position, ... Several of the players listed at right wing have played center in the NHL, like Trevor Linden. Some can play both wings. I've been skating on a line with the Sedin twins. They are a lot more skilled than some people give them credit. Look at their point totals and they are right up there in their point-per-minute averages. My job will be to complement them and try to get our line to provide secondary scoring behind the big line of Naslund, Bertuzzi and Morrison. Those guys look good and I expect they'll be the top line in the NHL again.

  Anson Carter

  Jobs, Player, Nhl

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• Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Focus, Four

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• Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. In no other sport are so many available and studied so assiduously by participants and fans. Much of the game's appeal, as a conversation piece, lies in the opportunity the fan gets to back up opinions and arguments with convincing figures, and it is entirely possible that more American boys have mastered long division by dealing with batting averages than in any other way.

  Leonard Koppett

  Sports, Baseball, Lying

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• Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.

  Hans Rosling

  Children, Population, World

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• Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that, at his birth, he might have found room in a quart mug. He died on March the 20th, 1727, after more than eighty-four years of more than average bodily health and vigour; it is a proper pendant to the story of the quart mug to state that he never lost more than one of his second teeth.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Years, Rooms, Teeth

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• By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, School, White

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• We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist jive politicians and the lackeys, as we used to call them, for the government who perpetuate all this exploitation and racism.

  Bobby Seale

  Government, Talking, White

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• If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch, 1,5 profound insights in the afternoon (on average), and .667 life-altering epiphanies after each sunset.

  David Brooks

  Morning, Sunset, Lunch

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• The average millionaire can't tell you who got thrown off the island last night.

  Dave Ramsey

  Success, Night, Islands

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• A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of "correctness". The literary definition would substitute, for the average hearer, a person of high education living a long time ago; the purpose of this definition is to make it difficult to speak or write correctly.

  Bertrand Russell

  Writing, Long, Purpose

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Analysis of Mind: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.115, 谷月社

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• I'm paid about 20 times more than the average Ryanair employee and I think the gap should be wider. I probably work 50 times harder. I think I'm the most underpaid and underappreciated airline boss in Europe.

  Michael O'Leary

  Thinking, Europe, Boss

  "Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary says he's underpaid on £1m a year" by Gwyn Topham, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2012.

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• The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Greatness, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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• For a moment there I convinced myself I had my back against a wall, and suddenly the only wall I find my back against is that of a 10 by 10 writing shack in Glendale, where the summer days average between 90 and 100 and each song can be quantified in the sweat it took to write it. There is no ac in hell, and sometimes you've got to get down to get up. The train is gaining speed I should think.

  Andrew McMahon

  Summer, Song, Wall

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• The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent - for every effect a perfect cause - and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strong, Business

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.368

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