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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.
Success
M. H. Alderson

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The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing, but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
Education
J. Frank Doble

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The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.
Travel and Tourism
Sam Ewing

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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
Risk
Milton Friedman

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A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
Boys
John B. S. Haldane

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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
Judgment and Judges
Edgar Watson Howe

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Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
Peace
Kin Hubbard

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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Critics and Criticism
Fran Lebowitz

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The average person thinks he isn't.
Thoughts and Thinking
Larry Lorenzoni

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A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Books - Reading
Hugh Maclennan

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
Wisdom
H. L. Mencken

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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
Averages
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
Averages
Leroy ''Satchel'' Paige

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The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
Effort
Colin Powell

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The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
Reputation
Francis Quarles

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Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
Management
John D. Rockefeller

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
Leaders and Leadership
Jim Rohn

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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Gossip
Eleanor Roosevelt

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I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
Averages
Theodore Roosevelt

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The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
Achievement
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
Adversity
Charles M. Schwab

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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Juries
Herbert Spencer

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Children smile on the average 400 times/day; Adults: 15 times/day. Ever wonder why?
Smile
Source Unknown

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If your batting average is high enough, the Big League will find you.
Averages
Source Unknown

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Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.
Averages
Source Unknown

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun