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• I'm not the average girl from your video and I ain't built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because i am a queen

  India.Arie

  Love, Girl, Queens

  Song: Video, Album: Acoustic Soul

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• The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent - for every effect a perfect cause - and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strong, Business

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.368

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• Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.

  Vicente Fox

  Government, Years, Priorities

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• What does it mean to be healthy? You may think that being healthy means that you are not sick, but being healthy is far more than that. If you feel okay, or average, or nothing much at all, you are not healthy.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Mean, Thinking

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• The average Christian pays more in interest than he gives to the Lord's work. In a church of 100 families 37 will give nothing.

  Larry Burkett

  Christian, Giving, Church

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• If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

  Earl Nightingale

  Thank You, Destiny, Wonder

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• Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager (the opposite of indexing), and the simplicity is just an added bonus.

  Patrick Geddes

  Successful, Simple, Opposites

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• 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, Thug, Men

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.46, Penguin

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• Average companies give their people something to work on. The most innovative organizations give their people something to work toward.

  Simon Sinek

  Organization, People, Giving

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.75, Penguin

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• I would bet that the average teenager in this country has not used the word 'wisdom' in the past year

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Teenager, Past

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• Little minds think and talk about people.
  Average minds think and talk about things and actions.
  Great minds think and talk about ideas.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• Grand Haven will challenge the skilled player yet, because of some width to the holes, it also will be a fun course that the average player can enjoy.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Fun, Player, Challenges

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• So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'

  Allen Ginsberg

  Nice, Jail, Eight

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• Last I checked, Bill Gates was worth $50 billion. If the average employed adult, who is walking in a hurry, will pick up a quarter from the sidewalk, but not a dime, then the corresponding amount of money given their relative wealth that Bill Gates would ignore if he saw it lying on the street is $25,000.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Lying, Science, Bills

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.301, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average programmer, you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Fall, Views, Intellectual

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.163, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Research by Donald A. Redelmeier and Sheldon M. Singh has found that, on average, Oscar winners live nearly four years longer than nominees that don't win.

  David Brooks

  Winning, Years, Research

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• Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.

  Ron Chernow

  Successful, Past, Circles

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  All I knew is that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE.

  Michael Jordan

  Wanted

  Michael Jordan (2012). “Driven from Within”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• If Lebron was playing in the late 80's and early 90's, just an average player

  Dennis Rodman

  Player, Late, Ifs

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• They say that most airline seats on planes today are meant for 170-pound passengers. The last time the average American weighed 170 pounds, the Wright Brothers were flying the plane.

  Jay Leno

  Brother, Flying, Today

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• You can have average talent, but when God breathes on your life, you will go further than people that have great talent. Don't talk yourself out of it.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Talent, Breathe

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• I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humor, Australia

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• The average man. The emergence of the concept.

  Adolphe Quetelet

  Men, Emergence, Concepts

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• Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Mean, Funeral, Eulogy

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• Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers.

  Jack Welch

  Phenomenon, Performers

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