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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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• My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance to the fearful, commonplace, splendid and the average grotesque banality in life.

  Max Beckmann

  Art, Fairy Tale, Sleepy

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• As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our graduates have settled in Israel. On average, every year 650 male and female students study in Israel for a minimum of one year.

  Norman Lamm

  Strong, Israel, Years

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• The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively—intuitively—the camera can write poetry.

  Harry Callahan

  Writing, Differences, Cameras

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• For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible?

  Daniel Suarez

  Bmw, Two, America

  Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.5, Penguin

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• Most people I meet are secretly convinced that they’re a little crazier than the average person. People understand the energy necessary to maintain their own shields, but not the energy expended by other people. They understand that their own sanity is a performance, but when confronted by other people they confuse the person with the role.

  Keith Johnstone

  People, Energy, Roles

  Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.83, Routledge

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• Academics are, on average, pussies.

  David Buss

  Pussy

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• Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be more successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.

  Chalene Johnson

  Successful, People, Motivated

  Chalene Johnson (2012). “Push (Enhanced Edition): 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, a Bangin' Body, and the Life You Deserve!”, p.13, Rodale

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• Advising the average person to not concern herself with calories but instead to pay attention to hunger triggers and eating foods rick in nutrients--well, it's a wonderful concept. I also love the thought of unicorns jumping over cotton candy rainbows. I'm even considering taking up basketball to see if it makes me taller. Come on already! Suggesting that someone who struggles with his weight does not need to think about calories is as risky as suggesting you not look at price tags the next time you're in the market for a car.

  Chalene Johnson

  Love, Basketball, Struggle

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• For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  War, World, Revolution

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1990). “Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot”, Gateway Books

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• It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Baby, Six Months, Weight

  Ina May Gaskin (2009). “Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding: From the Nation's Leading Midwife”, p.109, Bantam

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• The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track or even your grade point average - though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you have touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.

  R. J. Palacio

  Running, Years, Numbers

  "Wonder". Book by R. J. Palacio, February 14, 2012.

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• What I see here, what I feel here is that people in your world believe spirituality isn't distant. It's close and real. Religion seems born in the home, stays in the home. I mean, the services are even held in the home. And there's not one person in charge, one speaker set above the others. It's farmers and carpenters, and well, just average folk speaking spontaneously about the message they find in the Bible. [...] A message from the heart to the heart.

  Barbara Cameron

  Real, Believe, Home

  Barbara Cameron (2010). “A Time To Love”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That’s why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It’s for the experience.

  Travis Kalanick

  Nice, Iphone, Phones

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• Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible.

  Seth Godin

  Safe, Invisible, Feels

  Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.42, Penguin

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• The average are addicted to leisure. The exceptional are obsessed with learning.

  Robin Sharma

  Leisure, Obsessed, Exceptional

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• I have learned that some of the nicest people you'll ever meet are those who have suffered a traumatic event or loss. I admire them for their strength, but most especially for their life gratitude - a gift often taken for granted by the average person in society.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Gratitude, Taken, Loss

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• A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

  Brian Tracy

  Ambition, Goal, Genius

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• The circling horse was an oblique warning that i would repeat the same mistake eternally. Would the law of averages allow it? Can anything continue without change? Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

  Pete Townshend

  Horse, Mistake, Law

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• The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.

  Henry Rollins

  Hero, Men, Lines

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• The average man can't prove most of the things that he chooses to speak of, and still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of

  Damian Marley

  Men, Roots, Research

  Song: Patience

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• The attitude of the average Christian today is relax and be raptured. But He is coming... and when God gets angry you´ve no idea what it is. Like a thousand volcanoes exploding. He has appointed a day in which He is going to judge the world and the poor blindworld doesn´t know much about it and the poor blind church doesn´t think much about it now.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Attitude, Thinking

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• Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.

  Andy Andrews

  People, Ordinary People, Extraordinary

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• The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Firsts, Quitting

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.86, Penguin

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