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"Making an average pitch to average people, or having an average gala for average people isn't going to scale anymore. You've got to find the people who care. Those people are worth all of your time."
"Mass marketing means appealing to the masses which means appealing to the average."
"Can the level of wealth enjoyed by members of capitalist culture (remembering that it is 25 times greater, on average, than that enjoyed by citizens of two centures ago) be attained by all but a very few? And if it can be attained, what is the cost for everything else that we must sacrifice?"
"Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?"
"If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it's something like 35 years or younger. In other words... success is no indication of longevity."
"If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot."
"You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong."
"We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom."
"Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely."
"A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest."
"The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life."
"There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average."
"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)."
"While the average person is home watching TV, the Leader Without a Title is in the gym getting stronger or at the library getting smarter or at the office getting better (or with their family growing kinder). Make this day count."
"The average performer stops when they face fear. Iconic producer accelerates once they get frightened."
"You were born awesome. Please don't die average."
"I've spent a fair amount of time down at the border.I have watched as these packs of marijuana are on the backs of young men that are walking across the border. They're hauling an average of about 65 pounds, some of them every day they take another load."
"Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon."
"You'd be hard pressed to find more drama in 'Days of Our Lives' than you do in an average job each day."
"Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible."
