#average man

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

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The average man is not hard to mystify. ↗

— Howard Thurston

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Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done. ↗

— Burt Reynolds

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Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes. ↗

— Knute Rockne

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

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Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand. ↗

— Robert G. Allen

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There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

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The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

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The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. ↗

— Colin Wilson

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