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• The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.

  Robertson Davies

  Men, Nasty, Blind

  Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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• Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspiring, People, Achievement

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• You become the average of the five people you hang out with.

  Drew Houston

  People, Growth, Hanging Out

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• Look, I think that when we started Virgin Atlantic 30 years ago, we had one 747 competing with the airlines that had an average of 300 planes each. Every single one of those have gone bankrupt because they didn't have customer service. They had might, but they didn't have customer service, so customer service is everything in the end.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Years, Looks

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• If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

  Charles Stanley

  Effort, Excellent, Outstanding

  Charles Stanley (2011). “How to Reach Your Full Potential for God: Never Settle for Less than His Best”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Father, Humor

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• The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

  Crystal Eastman

  Ignorance, Men, Numbers

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

  Sherrod Brown

  Struggle, Income, Needs

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• If you are anything like me you'll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.

  Bill Hybels

  Running, Home, Fighting

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• The average Christian leaves planet earth never having led anyone to Christ.

  George Barna

  Christian, Religion, Earth

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• You were born awesome. Please don't die average.

  Robin Sharma

  Powerful, Born, Please

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Aug 01, 2014

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• The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.

  Robert Breault

  Long, Optimism, Benefits

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• I have but nothing to say to young girls. They're fine to look at, in the way I would look at a case filled with Shang dynasty glazes, but expecting to carry on a conversation with the average teen-aged young lady is akin to reading Voltaire to a cage filled with chimpanzees. I'm certain they would feel the same alienation for me. I can live with that knowledge.

  Harlan Ellison

  Girl, Women, Reading

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled”, p.278, Open Road Media

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• I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Women, Home, Creative

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• The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Women, Order, Likes

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• While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.

  Elizur Wright

  Powerful, Science, Single Life

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• Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell that causes your pernicious anaemia, or you can take Vitamin B12. If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. If you're interested in the sex of your unborn child, you can consult plumb-bob danglers all you want . . . but they'll be right, on average, only one time in two. If you want real accuracy . . . try amniocentesis and sonograms. Try science.

  Carl Sagan

  Sex, Children, Real

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• Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to madness? They have more than average amounts of energies and abilities to see things in a fresh and original way—then because they also have depression, I think they’re more in touch with human suffering.

  Nick Flynn

  Creativity, Thinking, People

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.140, Faber & Faber

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• Ask any Ferrari, Porsche or Ray-Ban salesperson about their average customer and you will very likely hear that he is not, as the adverts would have us believe, a virile young footballer with shiny hair, a rippling six pack and a trouser pouch like a new punch bag. He is, in fact, a middle-aged bloke wearing more chins than he started life with and carrying the clear evidence of forty years of beer and pies slung across his midriff.

  Richard Hammond

  Believe, Beer, Pie

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• The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share

  Jaron Lanier

  Thinking, People, Decision

  "My bright idea: Jaron Lanier". Interview With Aleks Krotoski, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

  Clay Shirky

  Law, Definitions, Firsts

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.114, Penguin UK

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• The rules have changed so much from our days and the Heatu2019s days. It was more physical back then. Today you can run around without getting touched. Today, Michael Jordan would average about 45 points.

  Horace Grant

  Running, Today, Jordan

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• You know what the average person is? Average.

  Richard Jeni

  Average Person, Persons, Knows

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• There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

  David Puttnam

  Teacher, World, Education System

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• People who keep dogs live longer on average than those who do not. This is not some kind of pro-canine campaigning fantasy. It is a simple medical fact that the calming influence of the company of a friendly pet animal reduces blood pressure and therefore
  the risk of heart attack.

  Desmond Morris

  Friendship, Dog, Heart

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