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The United Nations greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.
— Ginny Brown-Waite
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Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.
— Bill Gates
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Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those conceptions of form…
— Charles Kingsley
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First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather,…
— Julianna Baggott
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Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who is above, and his true position will be exposed. Let him…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to do good to…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the inspector, it was…
— Andrea Camilleri
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To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has to solve...And he…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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...this remedy is the power of the citizens; they have to prevent the establishment of such an autocratic regime that arrogates to itself a higher…
— Ludwig von Mises
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On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to…
— Hugh Mackay
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The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average…
— Bertrand Russell
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Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That…
— George Thorogood
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Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument…
— Ben Bagdikian
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So that's why I said, if you look at the average, you would see the money New York got this year was in line with…
— Michael Chertoff
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Asked random questions about the First Amendment and how they would like to have it applied, if you believe in polls at all, the average…
— Frank Zappa
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You won't find average Americans on the left or on the right. You'll find them at Kmart.
— Zell Miller
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Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion is…
— Wendy Kaminer
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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
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You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public…
— Gore Vidal
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