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The average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.
The average woman loses a half million dollars over a lifetime, but women with higher degrees lose $2 million over a lifetime.
For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
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.
More energy is encapsulated in every drop of good spring water than an average-sized PowerStation is presently able to produce.
The average person pushes an elevator button 6 or 7 minutes before realizing it's not working. I did a study on this, you know.
You can't go out and practice average on Wednesday, average on Thursday, okay on Friday and then expect to play well on Sunday.
Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon.
Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.
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.
I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account.
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
Everyone ought to wish to marry; some ought to be allowed to marry; and others ought to marry twice - to make the average good.
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
Within three or four months, the average girl will just get used up. It just takes your soul, you know? It just takes your soul.
I'm probably an average hitter, at least, and if you talk to my peers, they will tell you that I hit the ball plenty far enough.
Tens of millions of dollars spent, all meant to get Jeb Bush elected president. He currently is polling on average at around 5%.
It is one of the triumphs of modern society that the life of the average person with Down Syndrome has become strikingly normal.
Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge partners.
I'm going to bring in something called the London Living Rent. These are homes where rent is one third of average local earnings.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Not only is my wardrobe totally average, my body's totally average. I love all the candy-fantasy fulfillment of Sex and the City.
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.
If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.
They say that the average lifespan of an SVU detective is 4 years. People can't do it longer than that because it's so difficult.
I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people.
I played every sport in high school for one year. If I couldn't be great at it, I quit. I would rather not do it than be average.
You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers.
I've always wanted to do an Indian film, but I didn't want to come to India and pretend that I could play an average Bombay girl.
On average, when you ask someone to perform a task on a site, they cannot do it. It's not their fault; it's the designer's fault.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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.
I always felt that whatever I had to endure was nothing compared to what the average soldier, sailor or airman had to put up with.
For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than a .38 Special.
In 1900, the average life expectancy of a US citizen was 48, so most menopausal women were dead, which is not a great place to be.
In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet.
Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
It's a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he's dead.
Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand.
Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.
We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that.
... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.
I want to be able to separate the average from the good and from the great. I want to separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.
This Fruity Pebble that ya dealin' with, I ain't ya average jabroni. I'm like a big purple pinwheel, Rock, so go ahead and blow me.
More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.
Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.
The average American is more focused on leadership than likeability. And more focused on qualifications than quality of speakership.
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.