The mythology of freedom under capitalism for the average person is a con job.
We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.
It's Simon. He's missing." "Ah," said Magnus, delicately, "missing what, exactly?" "Missing," Jace repeated, "as in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared." "Maybe he's gone and hidden under something," Magnus suggested. "It can'...
Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
The knowledge of the Spirit is the true secret of creativity, leadership and happiness. It is spiritual intelligence that makes an ordinary person a genius. When a genius loses his spiritual intelligence, he becomes quite ordinary.
Organisations often appoint leaders for their IQ. Then, years later, sack them for their lack of EQ (Emotional Intelligence). Common Purpose argues that in the future they will promote for CQ - Cultural Intelligence.
Intelligence is the best capital.
The average sparrow is something of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average.
On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.
Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem.
Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.
The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.
My fiancee's average size, and my son's average size, so I don't want to alter my whole house, because the resale won't be very good unless we sell it to another little person.
The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness.
The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.
On a good day I think I'm handsome, on an average day I'm average. I'm a man's man so I don't necessarily know how cute we're supposed to be.
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.