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• It's fair to say average Americans think that the average Afghan doesn't want American troops in their country.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Thinking, Troops

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I really got consumed with the idea of how people who are deemed crazy or insane often have a firmer grasp on reality than normal people. The average person goes through life thinking it will go on forever.

  Youth Lagoon

  Crazy, Reality, Thinking

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. January 23, 2013.

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• It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.

  Randy Schekman

  Impact, Quality, Pieces

  "How journals like Nature, Cell and Science are damaging science" by Randy Schekman, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2013.

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• The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you'd use up ten of those taking care of your kids on teacher professional days, then tack on a couple more for kids getting sick.

  Hanna Rosin

  Teacher, Couple, School

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• Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life span. But are they smart enough to solve the problems of the 21st century?

  Thomas Homer-Dixon

  Smart, Problem, Wealth

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• Your income tends to equal the average income of your five best friends.

  Jeff Olson

  Income, Equal, Five

  Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.196, Greenleaf Book Group

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• A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Party, Class, Political

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• When I was younger, I wasnt thinking about fit. Clothes are measured just for me now. I know thats not what the average person does, but Ive gotten smart about what fits my body the right way and what makes me feel comfortable.

  Theophilus London

  Smart, Thinking, Clothes

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• Distractions are everywhere. And with the always-on technologies of today, they take a heavy toll on productivity. One study found that office distractions eat an average 2.1 hours a day. Another study, published in October 2005, found that employees spent an average of 11 minutes on a project before being distracted. After an interruption it takes them 25 minutes to return to the original task, if they do at all.

  David Rock

  Technology, Office, Tasks

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• The public, as a whole, buys at the wrong time and sells at the wrong time. The average operator, when he sees two or three points profit, takes it; but, if a stock goes against him two or three points, he holds on waiting for the price to recover, with oftentimes, the result of seeing a loss of two or three points run into a loss of ten points.

  Charles Dow

  Running, Loss, Two

  Charles Dow, Shread, Paul (2009). “Dow Theory Unplugged: Charles Dow's Original Editorials & Their Relevance Today”, p.298, Traders Press

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• I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.

  Steve Gleason

  Two, Talking, Years

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• It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves.

  Criss Jami

  Strong, Teaching, Taken

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.110, Criss Jami

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• How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.

  Criss Jami

  Lonely, Loneliness, Believe

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.115, Criss Jami

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• When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival, but rather by certain types of mankind proving superior to the rest in survival value, so that they contribute a larger proportion to the later generations, and in so doing drag the average qualities of humanity in the same direction.

  Charles Galton Darwin

  Race, Humanity, Survival

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• Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Saving, Source

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.44, Princeton University Press

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• The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist. The time is past when we can be content with our social fabric merely because it is "ordained by divine right," or by the majesty of the law.

  Emma Goldman

  Past, Law, Divine Right

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.63, 谷月社

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• Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.

  Fred Allen

  Father, Men, Play

  Fred Allen (2008). “Much Ado About Me”, p.311, Wildside Press LLC

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• I went to Columbia University because they were doing a study on people who suffered from panic attacks, and because I suffered from panic attacks my whole life, I decided to be a part of it. They had this questionnaire where they asked, How many units of alcohol do you have in a month? The top answer was 40 or more, and I got really scared because I was having on average 60 or 70 drinks a week. And I realized that that was a bad sign.

  Moby

  People, Alcohol, Answers

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Mind, Brain, Faults

  "Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, ("Notebook K", K 39), (1789-1793).

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• Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among millions; biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God; geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Home, Taught Us, Long

  Stephen Jay Gould (1992). “Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History”, p.147, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Pretentious, Persons, Know How

  "Karl Lagerfeld meets his match". Interview with Bruce LaBruce, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2011.

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• The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.

  John Stuart Mill

  People, Population, Improvement

  1848 Principles of Political Economy, with Some Applications to Social Philosophy.

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• Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Powerful, Mean

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it.

  Thomas Sowell

  Fire, Dollar Bills, Dollars

  "Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays". Book by Thomas Sowell, 1999.

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• Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from a hundred photographs, the prize being awarded to the competitor whose choice most nearly corresponds to the average preferences of the competitors as a whole.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Choices, Competition, May

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.140, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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