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• I know I have a big, big head. Hats, a lot of times, do not fit me. What is the average head size? Maybe like 16 inches. From the center of my forehead around to other side might be a foot, give or take four inches.

  Dule Hill

  Feet, Giving, Might

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• Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.

  Adam Carolla

  Delusional, Batting

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• I would love to see churches start using their Web sites to present video profiles of people within their congregations so that the average person could get a sense of what the life of the church (not the organization, but the people - the true church) is really like.

  Frank Minis Johnson

  Organization, People, Church

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• If the church could catch a vision for using video technology to present an authentic presentation of the life of the church - not rehearsed videos, but spontaneous records of conversations, laughing with one another, weeping with one another, people sharing their lives, etc. - the average person might take notice.

  Frank Minis Johnson

  Technology, People, Laughing

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• The average English critic is a don manqué, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto (presumably in Gothic lettering) "Above all no enthusiasm".

  Constant Lambert

  Enthusiasm, Gothic, Motto

  'Opera' December 1950

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• Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

  Vance Bourjaily

  Blessed, Men, Luck

  VANCE BOURJAILY (1967). “THE MAN WHO KNEW KENNEDY”

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• the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.

  Abigail McCarthy

  Apathy, Citizens, Politics

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• The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning. The mind needn't make any pictures since the pictures are provided, so the mind cuts current as low as it can.

  Carol Bly

  Children, Reading, Cutting

  Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”

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• My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.

  Willard Scott

  Dad, Agents, Remember

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• In Australia, average temperatures have risen almost one degree since 1910, and each decade since the 1940s has been warmer than the one before. That warming is real. Its consequences are real. And it will change our lives in real and practical ways.

  Julia Gillard

  Real, Australia, Way

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• What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.

  Abraham Maslow

  Psychology, Normal, Spread

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.

  Arthur Miller

  Kings, Heart, Men

  Arthur Miller (1996). “Death of a Salesman: Revised Edition”, p.134, Penguin

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• The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.

  Meg Rosoff

  Long, Trying, Attention

  "Selling yourself as a writer" by Meg Rosoff, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2007.

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• We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline? Everybody would look at you like youre completely out of your mind.

  Paul Watson

  Years, Cities, Water

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• I don't ever want you to settle for another average day in your life.

  Eric Thomas

  Want, Settling

  Twitter post from Dec 30, 2014

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• Success and average don't have nothing to do with each other.

  Eric Thomas

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• The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

  Eric Schmidt

  Law, Lobbyists, Realizing

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• Unfortunately, the (budget) does not . . . help Congress reform such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, which both grow at average rate of around 8 percent each year through 2015 and will continue to eat up more of the total federal budget.

  John Cornyn

  Years, Reform, Doe

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• Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.

  Sander Levin

  Jobs, Teaching, Nursing

  "The Fight for Women’s Equality Continues" by Rep. Sandy Levin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2013.

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• In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.

  Robert Fogel

  Retirement, Jobs, Long

  "So Big and Healthy Grandpa Wouldn’t Even Know You" by Gina Kolata, www.nytimes.com. July 30, 2006.

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• The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Self Esteem, Men, Play

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of humor and 3) That he is a good listener.

  Steven Sample

  Suffering, Three, Sense Of Humor

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• In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.

  Atul Gawande

  Meaningful, Pain, Sleep

  Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.162, Profile Books

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• The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser's intellectual abdication that invites them to take over. When a culture's dominant trend is geared to irrationality, the thugs win over the appeasers. When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.

  Ayn Rand

  Character, Winning, Thug

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.53, Penguin

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• Jimmy Carter, who embraced all manner of schemes to make America a second or third-rate country, came down so squarely in favor of the double nickel [the 55 mph National Speed Limit]...This is the same Jimmy Carter whose limosine with him in it, just a little later in his presidency, was timed at an average of 72 mph for the 21.5 mile trip from Detroit Metro to the Detroit Plaza Hotel. He didn't want to be late for a campaign appearance.

  Patrick Bedard

  Country, America, Mph

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