Average Quotes - Page 6

• America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

  Evan Esar

  Education, Money, Believe

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• On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

  Michael Badnarik

  War, Humor, Alcohol

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• I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Quoted in Alpheus T. Mason's Brandies: A Free Man's Life (p. 145)

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• The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Birthday, Believe

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• Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

  Marty Meehan

  Past, Years, Voice

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• According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

  Robert Fripp

  Men, Usa, America

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• In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

  Martha Beck

  Years, Brain, Century

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• Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

  Garrison Keillor

  Strong Women, Children, Parenting

  A Prairie Home Companion (radio series) (1974 - 1987)

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• In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

  Israel Zangwill

  Love, Life, Passion

  Israel Zangwill (1893). “Without Prejudice”, p.311, Library of Alexandria

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• The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

  Mike McCready

  Years, Long, Lucky

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• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Pride, Voice

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• A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Inspirational, Thank You, Children

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• Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Anniversary, Marriage, Husband

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• I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

  Bruce Schneier

  Answers, Internet Users, Firsts

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• There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

  Henry Adams

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Stupidity

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• An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

  Peter Straub

  Pms, Lunch, Hours

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• The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.

  Howard Staunton

  Queens, Games, Two

  Howard Staunton (1873). “The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions”, p.34

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• A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Book, Reading, Cat

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• The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

  John Philip Sousa

  Alaska, Lovers, Prevailing

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• I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.

  Mike Tyson

  Thinking, Nuts, Whatever Happens

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• A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.

  Greg Walden

  Jobs, Loss, Income

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• They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.

  George Sutherland

  Art, Persons, Ifs

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• The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.

  Sam Ewing

  Tourism, Tourists, Want

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• My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.

  Douglas Sirk

  Ideas, People, Littles

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• I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

  Brooks Robinson

  Player, Bats, Arms

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