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I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it… — David R. Brower
Drilling in the Refuge is completely unnecessary when we could improve the average fuel economy of cars, minivans and SUV's by just 3 miles a… — Ed Markey
If I want to average 32 points a game, I can do that easily. It's just eight, eight, eight, eight. No problem. I can do… — Patrick Ewing
...warming of the climate system is unequivocal...most of the global average warming over the past 50 years is very likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases… — Rajendra K. Pachauri
Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages to rise by… — Carl Sagan
The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs… — Paul Brown
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious. — Georg Simmel
That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to… — Raymond Chandler
The average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought be written indelibly… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter… — Wyndham Lewis
Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well,… — Peter Lynch
The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance. — Benjamin Zander
You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years. — Dexter Holland
Refuse to be average. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime. — James Bovard
Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only… — John Maynard Keynes
Home-making today should have a background of scientific training because only in this way can real efficiency be achieved. The average girl wants to be… — Eleanor Roosevelt

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