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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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• I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time.

  David Dreman

  Book, Yield, Cash Flow

  "Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Classic Edition". Book by David Dreman, May 18, 1998.

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• The eye of perfected friendship with God is aware of deeper dimensions of reality, to which the eyes of the average man and the average Christian are not yet opened.

  Josef Pieper

  Christian, Eye, Reality

  Josef Pieper (1989). “An Anthology”, p.23, Ignatius Press

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• It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

  David Whyte

  Narrative, Truthful, Realistic

  "The Poetic Narrative Of Our Times" by David Whyte, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.

  Francis Atterbury

  Differences, Details, Attention

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• One of the most striking and fundamental things about probability theory is that it leads to an understanding of the otherwise strange fact that events which are individually capricious and unpredictable can, when treated en masse, lead to very stable average performances.

  Warren Weaver

  Probability Theory, Understanding, Facts

  Warren Weaver (2012). “Lady Luck: The Theory of Probability”, p.361, Courier Corporation

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• Among Hispanics, there is little change in popularity from a grade point average of 1 through 2.5. After 2.5, the gradient turns sharply negative. A Hispanic student with a 4.0 grade point average is the least popular of all Hispanic students, and has 3 fewer friends than a typical white student with a 4.0 grade point average.

  Roland G. Fryer, Jr.

  White, Typical, Negative

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• I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely 'normal' life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more - much, much more.

  Melody Carlson

  New Day, Hopeful, Ordinary

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• To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

  Shane Koyczan

  Discovery, Deep Thought, Firsts

  Twitter post from Aug 29, 2013

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• Why is the 'average man' so far below average?

  Bruce Barnbaum

  Men, Average Man

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• When you have big dreams, you’re going to have big challenges. If you were an average person you would have average problems.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Dream, Challenges

  Twitter post from Sep 22, 2013

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• A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Doctors, Medicine

  Mark Twain (2010). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.137, Univ of California Press

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• Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

  Brian Tracy

  Blessing, Opportunity, Greatness

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• The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.

  Seth Godin

  Winning, Settling, Bigs

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• The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.

  Bernard Williams

  Father, Men, Pirate

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• We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

  Jane Fonda

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

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• The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. ... But the differences between us and where we are in relation to each other now matter very much.

  Richard G. Wilkinson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Differences

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• Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence.

  Niall Ferguson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

  "The 6 killer apps of prosperity". Ted conference, www.ted.com. 2011.

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• There's very good evidence that the average cat in Europe has a larger environmental footprint in its lifetime than the average African.

  Jason W Clay

  Motivation, Inspiration, Cat

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• Within three or four months, the average girl will just get used up. It just takes your soul, you know? It just takes your soul.

  Larry Flynt

  Girl, Interesting, Soul

  "Larry Flynt's 6 Tips for Porn Stars" by Larry Flynt as told to Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 27, 2013.

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• It takes an average of three hours after the first symptoms of a heart attack are recognized by the patient, before that patient arrives at an emergency room. Symptoms are often denied by the patient - particularly us men, because we are very brave.

  Robert Fischell

  Heart, Men, Brave

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• Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but do not narrow the tenements behind. Dignify the city by all means, but not at the expense of the health of the home and the family life and the comfort of the average workman and citizen.

  Thomas Adams

  Home, Mean, Cities

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• The great sin of the average Christian is ignorance of the word of God.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Christian, Ignorance, Sin

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• The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

  Marty Meehan

  Break, Taxes, Household

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• Someone should keep reminding Mr. Average Man that he was born free, divine, strong; uncrushable by fate, society, or hell itself; and that he is a child of God, equal heir to all the bounties of God; and that goodness is riches, kindness is power, and freedom is glory. Above all, every man is born with an inner capacity to take him as far as his imagination can dream or envision-providing he is free to dream and envision.

  Frank Capra

  Dream, Strong, Children

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