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“One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.”

Thinking States Lasts Three Hours United United States Saws Week Minutes Media Average Radio Variety Surveys Electronic Media

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“Within you there are thousands of rings of luminosity, bands, and each one is a universe of perception. In the average person's lifetime, they might just open up two or three, maybe four of those bands.”

Persons Two Might Universe Three Four Awareness Buddhism Band Perception Lifetime Average Rings Within You Average Person

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.”

Three Hours Five Built Horse Average Expected Miles Forty Stations Covered Fifteen Routes Riders Intervals Miles Apart

Book:An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill

Source: An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill

“The public, as a whole, buys at the wrong time and sells at the wrong time. The average operator, when he sees two or three points profit, takes it; but, if a stock goes against him two or three points, he holds on waiting for the price to recover, with oftentimes, the result of seeing a loss of two or three points run into a loss of ten points.”

Ifs Two Whole Running Three Waiting Loss Results Seeing Ten Sells Average Profit Wrong Time Operators

Book:Dow Theory Unplugged: Charles Dow's Original Editorials & Their Relevance Today

Source: Dow Theory Unplugged: Charles Dow's Original Editorials & Their Relevance Today

“Every day, almost as many men are killed at work as were killed during the average day in Vietnam. For men, there are, in essence, three male-only drafts: the draft of men to all the wars; the draft of Everyman to unpaid bodyguard; the draft of men to all the hazardous jobs or 'death professions.”

Men War Jobs Three Essence Males Average Profession Vietnam Bodyguard Everyman

Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?”

“The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring, variation, and heritability) and one syllogistic inference (natural selection, or the claim that organisms enjoying differential reproductive success will, on average, be those variants that are fortuitously better adapted to changing local environments, and that these variants will then pass their favored traits to offspring by inheritance).”

“The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of humor and 3) That he is a good listener.”

Persons Suffering Three Average Delusion Drivers Sense Of Humor Listeners Good Sense Average Person Good Listener Good Sense Of Humor

Author:Steven Sample

“The important point there is that when people talk about a mean temperature rise of say two, three or four degrees that's a sort of global average which really is a signature of large scale change in climatic patterns.”

People Mean Two Important Three Four Degrees Average Patterns Scales Temperature Signatures Large Scale

Author:Martin Rees