Average Quotes
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Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.
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In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.
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In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories.
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You must get Israelis to understand the feelings and the hopes and the traumas of the Palestinians. You have to get the Palestinians to understand why Israel is behaving the way it does: What is the legacy of the Holocaust, what are the fears of average Jewish people?
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Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role.
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But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.
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There are no prizes for average performance.
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While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.
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Sometimes you can have the quarterback and no system. Sometimes, you can have a system with an average quarterback and do well.
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The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.
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I was criticized for being too much concerned with the average Canadians. I can't help that; I am one of them!
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I'm an average citizen and always have been.
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In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.
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Dreams are more original than images we see in the media, and are surprisingly unaffected by media. For example, the average person watches several hours of television per day, yet dreams are rarely about shows we have watched or news of the day.
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Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?
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A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.
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I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world.
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I think the average American, if they go to the workplace, somebody's next to 'em, they're not poking around trying to figure out what their religious beliefs are.
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Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars. The average comics shop can offer only a tiny fraction of an industrywide selection that is itself extremely limited in scope. And even when readers know exactly what they want, the search can be maddeningly futile.
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One thing I don't understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they'll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.
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Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted readers to feel like they were sitting around the dinner table with me and my friends, hearing what average people really say and really think, where the dinner table is the best place to find out.
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Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.
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If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?
