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They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that… — Franklin Raines
Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our… — Michael J Cohen
It's okay to be average, as long as you surround yourself with extraordinary people that you become the average of. — Hal Elrod
[T]ake the war on drugs. The average American says, "The war on drugs has been beneficial." The rest of us see reality. This war has… — Jacob G. Hornberger
One of the most distinguishing differences between liberals and conservatives in America is that the average Liberal feels that we should have little reservation about… — Derek R. Audette
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that… — William Ralph Inge
Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume… — Richard J. Foster
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and… — Wendell Berry
But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing today with what they wrote a year ago,… — Hiram Maxim
Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I… — Walt Whitman
The models that have been constructed agree that when, as has been predicted, the level of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in other greenhouse gases… — Bill McKibben
The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does. — Michael Gerson
Over the years, we have lost millions of decent paying jobs. These trade agreements have forced wages down in America so the average worker in… — Hillary Clinton
I personally have more faith than the average writer in people's willingness to be complicated, and so I'm thrilled by what's happened. I'm elated at… — Michael Loceff
In fact, in Parliament, I pointed out that Australians on average incomes would move into the second highest tax bracket in the next couple of… — Joe Hockey
ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be… — Ambrose Bierce
In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that… — Carl Sandburg
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy. — Helen Rowland
The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work. — Arthur Brisbane

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