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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Great, Small, Minds

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill

Best, Democracy, Against

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

Crazy, Understand, Dream

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Experience, Wise, Stupid

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
Marilyn Monroe

Happy, American, Child

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
Ron Paul

Money, Government, Bad

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

Understand, Special, Universe

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.
Kurt Cobain

Problem, Threat, Macho

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller

Leadership, Work, Good

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. Mencken

Harder, Ape, Descended

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
Theodore Roosevelt

Work, Harder, George

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz

Great, Small, Talk

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.
Will Smith

Talent, Above, Talented

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud

Between, Child, Adult

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andy Rooney

Person, Dog, Nicer

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.
Will Smith

Talent, Practice, Ridiculous

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
H. L. Mencken

Truth, Husband, Woman

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Carl Jung

Deep, Down, Through

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Peter Drucker

Leadership, Human, Able

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

American, Ambition, Married

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
Garrison Keillor

Women, Men, Strong

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
Bill Gates

Down, Put, Poor

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Best, Cannot, Quality

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
H. L. Mencken

American, Progress, Taxes

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
H. L. Mencken

Wise, Long, Woman

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.
Peter Drucker

Person, Teach, Capable

I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.
Clint Eastwood

Feelings, Same, Guy

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. Mencken

Harder, Ape, Descended

I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.
Mike Tyson

Person, Whatever, Happens

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
Sigmund Freud

Person, Ego, Fact

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