Average Quotes
1590 quotes by 1249 authors
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The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
— Colin Wilson
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Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the 'Guardian' carefully from…
— Robert Winston
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
— Naomi Wolf
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I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
— Loretta Young
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Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably…
— Rob Zombie
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I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It…
— Viswanathan Anand
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I didn't get to college until my 20s, because I was a young father on welfare and had to take all kind of jobs to…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.
— Helen Fisher
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Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.
— Greg Graffin
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If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
— Hanna Rosin
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You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
— Jim Rohn
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there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at…
— Charles Bukowski
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Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of…
— Terry Pratchett
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The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not…
— Margaret Sanger
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Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such rivalries, which is why most…
— Chuck Klosterman
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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
— Jim Rohn
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It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in.…
— Douglas Adams
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What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin'…
— Ken Kesey
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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
— George Carlin
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