#average

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases. ↗

— G. Stanley Hall

#alive #arts #average #bodies #body

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#average #breed #just #makes #minor

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#ambition #american #average #boyfriend #courted

I always felt good about myself. I was just an average person. I always felt I could do anything anyone else could. If an average person makes up their mind to do something, they can. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#always #anyone #anything #average #average person

What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days. ↗

— David F. Houston

#average #bushel #contains #days #energy

The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#every #every time #judgment #man #poor

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here. ↗

— Kabir Bedi

#dynamism #englishman #here #idea #music

Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#beat #circle #deadly #difficult #even

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#average #build #democracies #democracy #democratic

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#did #living #longer #our #than