Average Quotes — Page 36

Writer, Journalist

“I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.”

Home Women Average

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Gore Vidal

Writer, Essayist, Playwright

“Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.”

Men Desire Average

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Gwethalyn Graham

Author

“There is nothing in the education of the average non-scientific human being to discourage him from the habit of generalizing from little or no evidence, and worse still and far more important, nothing to discourage him from the habit of starting with a generalization and ending up with the individual, instead of the other way round.”

Important Littles Average

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Franz Kafka

Writer

“It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.”

Sometimes Life Is Average

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Fred Allen

Comedian, Actor

“Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.”

Men Father Average

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Fred Allen

Comedian, Actor

“The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle.”

President Growth Average

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.”

Years Office Average

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FT

Fred Thompson

Politician

“The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in the Congress today.”

Years Country Average

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Freeman Dyson

Theoretical Physicist

“The average student emerges at the end of the Ph.D. program, already middle-aged, overspecialized, poorly prepared for the world outside, and almost unemployable except in a narrow area of specialization. Large numbers of students for whom the program is inappropriate are trapped in it, because the Ph.D. has become a union card required for entry into the scientific job market.”

Jobs Numbers Average

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Norman Ralph Augustine

Business Executive

“Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.”

Law Numbers Average

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