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“Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, requires necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course.”

Persons Reason Courses Politics Ordinary Illusion Average Stupidity Myth Makers Observers Average Person Rationalism Ordinary Person Oversimplification

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker. These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.”

“When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not.”

Important Play Change Player Minutes Football Balls Important Things Average Determine Proven Great Football

Author:Johan Cruijff

“By some estimates, income and wealth inequality are near their highest levels in the past hundred years, much higher than the average during that time span and probably higher than for much of American history before then.”

Years Past Wealth Levels Higher Highest Hundred Average Income Inequality American History Wealth Inequality

Author:Janet Yellen

“After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. By comparison, the average real income of the other 95% of households grew less than 10%.”

Real Wealth Grew Average Income Inequality Comparison Household Inflation Adjusting Wealth Inequality

Author:Janet Yellen

“The average net worth of the lower half of the distribution, representing 62 million households, was $11,000 in 2013. About one-fourth of these families reported zero wealth or negative net worth, and a significant fraction of those said they were "underwater" on their home mortgages, owing more than the value of the home. This $11,000 average is 50 percent lower than the average wealth of the lower half of families in 1989, adjusted for inflation.”

“In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average.”

Religion Percent Rate Average Divorce Belts Divorce Rates

Book:The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience: Why Are Christians Living Just Like the Rest of the World?

Source: The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience: Why Are Christians Living Just Like the Rest of the World?

“Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.”

Persons Whole Law Interest Community Taken Materials Standards Average Contemporary Appeals Theme Dominant Average Person

Author:William J. Brennan

“Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier and yet adamantly saner, than the average person.”

May Persons Home Creative Genius Logic Average Destructive Primitive Constructive Symbolism Knowledgeable Average Person Creative Genius

Author:Frank X. Barron

“Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life”

Stupid Average Brilliant Seconds Frustrating Rest Of Your Life Being Stupid

Author:Garrison Wynn

“It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.”

Wells Individual Bits Millions Childhood Average Scientism

Author:DeForest Kelley

“The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.”

Feels Doe Seems Succeed Europe Average

Book:Rumour and Reflection: 1941:1944

Source: Rumour and Reflection: 1941:1944

“As was noted in the Wall Street Journal, last March 21st, FDA approval of drug labelling, '...requires seven to ten years, and costs each applicant an average of $70 million.'”

Years Age Lasts Dark Millions Streets Wall Cost Drug Ten Seven Average Medical March Approval Journal Dark Ages Fda Wall Street Journal

Author:Orrin Hatch

“It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask, 'For which people ("& why") is drug A better than drug B, and vice versa? If drug A cures 40% and drug B cures 60%, perhaps the right choice of drug for each person would result in 100% cures.'”

People Ifs Persons Enough Shows Age Choices Asks Dark Results Drug Average Vices Medical Cures Invited Dark Ages Vice Versa Right Choices

Author:Lancelot Hogben

“...buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open.”

Bits Cities Seeing Sea Car Arms Rivers Window Average Fishes Stores Boat Buying Lakes Fishing Joining Fly Fishing

Author:John D. Voelker

“On average, when you ask someone to perform a task on a site, they cannot do it. It's not their fault; it's the designer's fault.”

Asks Internet Tasks Faults Average Designer Site

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.”

Feelings Company Share Average Chiefs Executives Baboons Chief Executives

Author:T. Boone Pickens

“On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans.”

Different Turns Average Chinese Korean Jamaicans

Author:J. Philippe Rushton

“The average household might prepare for root canal, traffic accident, unemployment or illness, but how the household will meet, manage and even survive violent crime is the most neglected area of household management.”

Might Crime Areas Roots Management Average Illness Accidents Violent Manage Household Traffic Unemployment Neglected Canals Violent Crimes Root Canals

Author:John Longenecker

“Government is saying to the average citizen every January 1: 'For the next five months you'll be working for us, for goals we shall determine. Is that clear? After May 5 you may look after your own needs and ambitions, but report back to us next January. Now move along.' ... If nearly half of what you make is spent by someone else, that means that half your work time is spent working for someone else. Call me a radical, but I think that comes dangerously close to being a form of indentured servitude.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Looks May Mean Government Moving Form Next Goal Half Clear Five Months Citizens Ambition Average Determine Radical Reports Call Me January Servitude January 1

Author:Dick Armey

“Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities. ... [G]overnment is wasteful of the nation's resources, immune to common sense and subject to pressure from every half-organized bouquet of assholes. ... [G]overnment is distrustful of and disrespectful toward average Americans while being easily gulled by Americans with money, influence or fame.”

“According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns 36 percent of the average American's output-which is more than feudal serfs owed the robber barons. That 36 percent is more than the average American spends on food, clothing and housing. In other words, if it were not for taxes, the average American's living standard would at least double.”

Ifs Years Mean Government Pay Taxes Standards Percent Foundation Workers Average Clothings Housing Robbers Output Days Of The Year American Workers Serfs Robber Baron

Author:Paul Craig Roberts

“That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.”

Running Decision Numbers Baseball Average Managers Odds Percentages

Author:Rollie Fingers

“No one knows loneliness like an atheist. When an average person feels isolated, he can call through the depths of his soul to One who knows him and sense an answer. An atheist cannot allow himself that luxury, for he has to crush the urge and remind himself of its absurdity.”

Knows Feels Persons Soul Answers Loneliness Depth Atheist Average Luxury Crush Urges Isolated Absurdity Average Person

Author:Jeffrey Lang

“We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change.”

Men Needs Reality Today Half Equal Percent Men And Women Average Gender Myth Buying Gender Equality Workforce Equal Pay Working Man Working Women

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“While much remains to be done to achieve full equality of economic opportunity-for the average woman worker earns only 60 percent of the average wage for men-this legislation is a significant step forward.”

Men Done Opportunity Steps Economic Achieve Equal Percent Remains Workers Average Significant Legislation Steps Forward Equal Pay

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

“The lower the family income, the higher the probability that the mother must work. Today, 1 out of 5 of these working mothers has children under 3. Two out of 5 have children of school age. Among the remainder, about 50 percent have husbands who earn less than $5,000 a year-many of them much less. I believe they bear the heaviest burden of any group in our Nation. Where the mother is the sole support of the family, she often must face the hard choice of either accepting public assistance or taking a position at a pay rate which averages less than two-thirds of the pay rate for men.”

“I was walking an average of about two and a half miles a day, which is still more than most Americans. Most Americans don't even walk that.”

Stills Two Walks Half Journey Walking Average Miles Wander Hiking Trekking Strolling Sauntering

Author:Morgan Spurlock

“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.”

America Nations United Demand Organization International Average Tolerate United Nations Scandal Greatest Fear

Author:Ginny Brown-Waite

“Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.”

Faces Brain Computer Average Users Monkeys Spiders

Author:Bill Gates

“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 and number which every human being possesses; and any person of average intellect can make himself a fair mathematician if he will only pay continuous attention; in plain English, think enough about the subject.”

Source: Scientific Lectures and Essays

“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, to encourage cliché, to uphold the virtues of average. You hand over the need to be understood and, in return, you get a bar of Normal soap. And you can wash in it and be daily reborn to a safe world of modest, enduring love or, at least, mild, well-mannered bonding.”

“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 be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, God and self, God and human love, and God will take second place every time.”

Men Love Humans Self Age Choices Position Ambition Average Proof Gods Will Exposed Time Love Average Man Human Love Second Place God And Love

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“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 men by doing violence to your feelings, holding your nose, and shutting your eyes, especially shutting your eyes. Endure their villainy without anger, as much as possible; try to remember that you're a man too. For, if you're even a little above average intelligence, you'll have the propensity to judge people severely. Men are vile by nature and they'd rather love out of fear. Don't give in to such love: despise it always.”

People Ifs Knows Men Love Giving Trying Littles Said Feelings Eye Age Remember Boys Violence Impossible Judging Endure Average Noses Despise Propensity My Boys Villainy Above Average

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“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 an effect of the distance between them becoming less and less tolerable with each passing day, since as we grow old - for every now and then one must, yes, look reality in the eye and call things by their proper names - we feel more keenly the need to have the person we love beside us.”

“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 is distressed to find that the more means he can dispose of-such as machine-power, rapid transport, and general civilized amenities, the more his problems grow in hardness and complexity....Perhaps the first thing he can learn form the artists is that the only way of 'mastering' one's material is to abandon the whole conception of mastery and to co-operate with it in love: whosoever will be a lord of life, let him be its servant.”

“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 must have equal opportunity in the market place.”

Ifs Opportunity Freedom Half Citizens Equal Affair Average Committed Propositions Equal Opportunity Polling

Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“...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 wisdom than that of the average citizen. This is the fundamental difference between freedom and serfdom.”

Differences Freedom Higher Citizens Fundamentals Average Establishment Regimes Remedy

Book:Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

Source: Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

“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 each other.”

Three Hours Talking Watches Minutes Television Couple Average

Author:Hugh Mackay

“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 share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.”

Source: A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42

“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 set us apart from the average blues band.”

Guy Song Girl Type Band Guitar Average Guitar Playing

Author:George Thorogood

“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 is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer.”

Trying Firsts Play Passion Audience Instruments Rate Average Newspapers Performers Reporters Crude Matthew Ukulele St Matthew

Author:Ben Bagdikian

“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 the average across the prior three years and substantially more, by a country mile, than the money given to any other city.”

Ifs Years Looks Said Country Three Given Lines Cities New York Average Miles Three Years

Author:Michael Chertoff

“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 American wants no part of it. But if you ask, 'What if we threw the Constitution away tomorrow?' the answer is 'No, that would be bad!' But living under the Constitution is another story altogether.”

Ifs Want Firsts Believe Stories Would Be Asks Answers Society Tomorrow Constitution Average What If Amendments Polls If You Believe First Amendment

Author:Frank Zappa

“You won't find average Americans on the left or on the right. You'll find them at Kmart.”

America Left Average Kmart

Author:Zell Miller

“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 about as intellectually challenging as the average self-help book. (Like personal development literature, mass market books about spirituality and religion celebrate emotionalism and denigrate reason. They elevate the "truths" of myths and parables over empiricism.) In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.”

“An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.”

Ends Hours Average Lunch Pms

Author:Peter Straub

“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”

Years Believe Whole America Money Education Week Security Average Athlete Educational Professors More Money Professional Athlete Pro Athlete

Author:Evan Esar

“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 educational system we have for the average person. It's just grotesque.”

People Persons Has Beens Media Filled Average Educational Horrible Propaganda Grotesque Average Person Educational System Public Education Density

Author:Gore Vidal

“To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole hemisphere, with its center near New Zealand, would have only one-tenth of its area as dry land! And the average depth of the seas is over two miles.”

Two Whole Facts Might Earth Attention Sea Land Ocean Areas Depth Average Miles Dry Exploration Covered New Zealand Hemisphere Ocean Exploration Dry Land

Author:Paul J. H. Schoemaker

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