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The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.

The Age of Average gave us a lot. Take clothing: We've all benefited remarkably from large, medium and small sizes making things affordable and available, but when it really counts - the wedding gown and the pressurized fighter pilot suit - it's bespoke all the way.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.

The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist. The time is past when we can be content with our social fabric merely because it is "ordained by divine right," or by the majesty of the law.

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.

The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would change. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurged herself into a top-heavy realist, the other a lopsided romantic.

The average person can’t really trust anybody. They can’t trust a broker, because the broker is interested in churning commissions. They can’t trust a mutual fund, because the mutual fund is interested in gathering a lot of assets and keeping them. And now it’s even worse because even the most sophisticated people have no idea what’s going on.

The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.

The average person is either a weakling, or just a happy person who wants to get along, or thinks being tough is having big muscles and strutting around town and having a good-looking girlfriend.

The average person is unaware that he or she is living out a negative destiny according to his or her past (childhood) programming, preserving his or her familiar identity, and, in the process, pushing love away. On an unconscious level, many people sense that if they did not push love away, the whole world, as they have experienced it, would be shattered and they would not know who they were.

The average person might articulate them differently, but we all think about interpersonal relationships in one way or another. Writers just express that in different ways and capture it in different ways. To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.

The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.

The average pregnant woman farts 15 times that!

The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.

The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.

The average voter out there understands that the next president is going to have to be prepared to immediately step in without hesitation and end our involvement in Iraq. It's very difficult to figure out how to move on to broader foreign policy concerns without fixing Iraq first.

The average woman is a size 14 but 'plus' models start at a size six. The industry wants you to feel bad about yourself, and they succeed. I find it to be disgusting.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

The average age of our members is about 79. They expected them (leaders) to be taking care of everything, and in reality, they were taking care of nothing.

The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.

The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible.

The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.

... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.

The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.

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

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.

The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing

The average individual spends many, many lifetimes meditating and seeking and chewing bubblegum and doing things like that to attain the experience of samadhi.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.

The average performer stops when they face fear. Iconic producer accelerates once they get frightened.

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.

The average person just sees through their senses. The world is filled with wonderful mysteries and beauty. You need personal power to open up all of that, without it - these are just words.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.

The average term length of a member of congress is approaching 15 years, and the average term length of a convicted criminal is less than three. We've got that backward.

The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers.

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.