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• The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Fashion, Heaven, Kingdoms

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.43, Random House

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• The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

  William Ralph Inge

  Men, Littles, Rich

  Outspoken Essays Patriotism (pp. 38-9)

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• A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Men, Housewife

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• Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Japan, People

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.126, Vintage

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• The average person's short-term memory can hold only five to seven bits of data at any one moment. If you put more items in, others fall out. The older you are, the more you have crammed into those memory circuits. Twenty-five-year-olds can remember things because they still have empty space. Some of us take our children to the supermarket in the hope they will remember why we are there.

  Jennifer James

  Children, Memories, Fall

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

  Emma Goldman

  Teacher, Parent, Mind

  Emma Goldman (1913). “Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures”

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• Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.

  Helen Rowland

  Men, Shoes, Wife

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.58, Lulu.com

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• To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Successful, Ideas, Two

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• [On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid.

  Bette Davis

  Art, Stupid, Gay

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• But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.

  Margaret Benson

  Mediocrity, Want, Facts

  Margaret Benson (1908). “The Venture of Rational Faih”

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• But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Individuality, Brain

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.73, Penguin

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• Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.

  Florence Nightingale

  Science, Data, Minutes

  Florence Nightingale (1859). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.69

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• As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that its actual monetary value is skidding toward zero. Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Same thing with work: would we be so reverent about the 'work ethic' if it wasn't for the fact that the average working stiff's hourly pay is shrinking, year by year.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Zero, Work, Motherhood

  Ms., Oct. 1986

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• Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Men, Trying, Affair

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential.

  Emily Post

  Golf, Games, Bridges

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.527, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false ideas, some of the most absurd ideas a brain can hold. ... but all this give no uneasiness to the average brain. That long-suffering organ has been trained for more thousands of years than history can uncover to hold in unquestioning patience great blocks of irrelevant idiocy and large active lies.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Block, Lying, Years

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• Quantum events have a way of just happening, without any cause, as when a radioactive atom decays at a random time. Even the quantum vacuum is not an inert void, but is boiling with quantum fluctuations. In our macroscopic world, we are used to energy conservation, but in the quantum realm this holds only on average. Energy fluctuations out of nothing create short-lived particle-antiparticle pairs, which is why the vacuum is not emptiness but a sea of transient particles. An uncaused beginning, even out of nothing, for spacetime is no great leap of the imagination.

  Taner Edis

  Sea, Imagination, Religion

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• Biblical higher criticism is preserved in the particular enclave of academic Christian scholarship and is thought to be too unfruitful to share with the average pew-sitter, for it raises more questions than the church can adequately answer. So the leaders of the church would protect the simple believers from concepts they were not trained to understand. In this way that ever-widening gap between academic Christians and the average pew-sitter made its first appearance.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Biblical, Simple

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• Anyone who looks for life can find it... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of Pollyanna, with a lollypop in one hand and a camera in the other. You can't be a Nice Nelly and take news pictures.

  Weegee

  Nice, Hands, Cameras

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• One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists. The average comic reader isn't casual about their habit.

  Charlie Huston

  Character, Artist, People

  "Charlie Huston Talks About Creative Sacrifice In Writing Pulp Fiction". Interview With Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, www.wsj.com. September 15, 2007.

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• A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think it's better to write as small as you can, to start scenes with little personal details or people who are doing average every day human things. That, to me, lets the average reader into that person's life. "Yeah I eat breakfast. I take a shower."

  Don Winslow

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Don Winslow on his amazing new book ‘The Cartel’ and America’s drug war". Interview with Drew Mcweeny, uproxx.com. July 01, 2015.

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• I was not one of the popular kids, I was not great at sports, girls didn't pay attention to me.I was just pretty much an average kid, no stand-out abilities, nothing note-worthy.

  Jeff Dunham

  Girl, Sports, Kids

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I kind of help solve world peace and world hunger. That's just kind of an average day off for me.

  Nat Wolff

  Days Off, World, Helping

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.

  Louise Bernikow

  Loneliness, Waiting, Watches

  Louise Bernikow (1986). “Alone in America: the search for companionship”, Harpercollins

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• I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and conscious emotional responses to being alive. ... The kind of esteem that's given to brightness/smartness obliterates average people or slow learners from participating fully in human life, particularly technical and intellectual life. But you cannot exclude any human being from emotional participation.

  Ntozake Shange

  Emotional, Ideas, People

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