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• President Obama has shown he has the vision to support average consumers and taxpayers.

  Austin Ligon

  Support, Vision, President

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• Now we average 90 accidents a day and often it's as high as 100

  Don Kelly

  Accidents

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• All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others' lives for it.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Wish, Hazards, Ministry

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2010). “The Windup Girl”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• The Internet is really our meeting place. We have this amazing listserv. Every time I log onto it I feel a sense of pride, because if you log on and say, "Oh I was just in San Diego and I was in a park and I saw a lion," the flurry of replies on average is just like--wow! All these existential questions about what it means to be an African, and never having seen a lion at home, but having seen a lion here. Everything you say turns into this real philosophical debate--it's incredible in so many ways. And it's an invigorating place to be.

  Chris Abani

  Real, Philosophical, Mean

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• The American College of Sports Medicine found that the productivity of people after exercise was an average of 65 percent higher than those who did not exercise. If I have something that's really bothering me, so much that it almost hurts my head to try to sort it out, I always find the solution in a puddle of sweat! Intense exercise is like taking a magic pill that gives you the ability to solve problems like a superhero.

  Chalene Johnson

  Sports, Hurt, Exercise

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• Becka might have been average in L.A., but average in L.A. is Queen of Mars in the visiting room of a federal penitentiary in North Carolina.

  Kelly Link

  Queens, North Carolina, Mars

  "Magic for Beginners". Book by Kelly Link, 2005.

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• Most people are middle class. Most people do wish their lives were better than they are. And I think by making my main characters ordinary, average guys, it helps readers identify with their problems. It also helps ground the supernatural events that follow in a recognizable reality and perhaps gives some of my wilder scenarios a little verisimilitude.

  Bentley Little

  Character, Reality, Thinking

  "Bentley Little: The Elusive Dark Scribe Speaks". Interview with Vince A. Liaguno, www.darkscribemagazine.com. September 24, 2007.

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• The Lawyers' trade is a trade built entirely on words. And so long as the lawyers carefully keep to themselves the key to what those words mean, the only way the average man can find out what is going on is to become a lawyer, or at least to study law, himself. All of which makes it very nice -- and very secure -- for the lawyers.

  Fred Rodell

  Nice, Mean, Men

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• It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government--not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.

  Fred Rodell

  Running, Mistake, Men

  Fred Rodell (1986). “55 Men, Story of Constitution”, p.22, Stackpole Books

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• Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical" state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us.

  Nyanaponika Thera

  Simple, Achievement, Meditation

  Nyanaponika Thera (2005). “The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: Satipaṭṭhāna : a Handbook of Mental Training Based on the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness, with an Anthology of Relevant Texts Translated from the Pali and Sanskrit”, p.25, Buddhist Publication Society

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• "Average" isn't so hot at the race track given those steep track takes. "Average" is pretty decent for stocks, something like 6 percent above the inflation rate. For a buy-and -hold investor, commissions and taxes are small.

  William Poundstone

  Race, Track, Hot

  "Fortune's Formula". Part Three, Arbitrage, This Is Not the Time To Buy Stocks, p. 134. Book by William Poundstone, 2005.

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• Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence.

  Andrew Tobias

  Hay Fever, Suffering, Fever

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical language simply as a play upon words. Its full significance is revealed only when we approach it in a different manner, making our minds available to the new processes of inner perception which it suggests.

  Robert Linssen

  Attitude, Play, Perception

  Robert Linssen (1958). “Living Zen”

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• Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ... It is at the same time a training in boldness. ... It demands from us the boldness implied in the resolve to regard the accepted views as mere opinions, or to regard the average opinions as extreme opinions which are at least as likely to be wrong as the most strange or least popular opinions

  Leo Strauss

  Views, Training, Mind

  Leo Strauss, Hilail Gildin (1989). “An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays”, p.319, Wayne State University Press

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• Britain, with the most completely socialized health system in the West, now spends the lowest fraction of GNP on health care of any major nation. There are frequent complaints of excessive waits for elective surgery and other inconveniences, but British citizens live slightly longer than Americans, on average, and our overall health conditions are comparable.

  Robert Kuttner

  Waiting, Citizens, Care

  Robert Kuttner (1984). “The economic illusion: false choices between prosperity and social justice”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.

  Ethan Nadelmann

  War, Believe, Kids

  "Reformer Profile: Ethan Nadelmann" by Steve Beitler, stopthedrugwar.org. August 10, 2001.

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• They say the average bank robber lives within say about 20 miles of the bank that he robs There's this little bank not so far from here I've been watching now for a while Seems like lately alls I can think about is how bad I wanna go out in style

  Todd Snider

  Thinking, Style, Littles

  "Song: "Statistician's Blues" ("Near Truths and Hotel Rooms")". 2002.

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• The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because of the disproportionate amount of the power required to achieve high speed and to lift loads thousands of feet into the air. This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that while an average cargo ship, freight train and transport aeroplane are each equipped with engines totalling about 2,500 H.P., the ship can carry a load of about 7,000 tons, the train 800 tons and the plane only two and a half tons.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Air, Essence, Two

  Speech at the Bombay Rotary Club on November 02, 1943. "Keynote: Excerpts from his speeches and chairman's statements to shareholders". Book by J. R. D Tata, 1986.

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• Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel.

  Willa Holland

  Angel, Men, Inferiors

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• Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will happen. It's the nature of racing, the law of averages. If you want to be a front-runner then you are going to have to push very hard, and collisions can happen.

  Allan McNish

  Sports, Law, Track

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• The church as we know it today seems a million miles from the New Testament church. That may be a great generalization, but I will stand on it. There is a gulf between our average Christianity and the church of New Testament that makes the Grand Canyon look like a cavity in someone's tooth.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Church, May, Today

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• With the single crossing over to pop radio, it's bringing out new people to the shows. We've got all our metal kids and punk kids who still love us. And then we've got the average joes coming out. We call our fans the 'mixed nuts' because it's all kinds of people out there.

  Jacoby Shaddix

  Kids, Average Joe, Nuts

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• I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth's ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar.

  Brad Leithauser

  Air, Long Ago, Order

  "Reading Your Friends’ Novels" by Brad Leithauser, www.newyorker.com. January 07, 2013.

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• If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?

  Carl Sagan

  Pain, Pseudoscience, May

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.44, Ballantine Books

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• The average performer stops when they face fear. Iconic producer accelerates once they get frightened.

  Robin Sharma

  Fear, Faces, Frightened

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