The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by yout...
by adding together these three differences - between what we have and what we'd like to have, what we have now and the best of what we've had in the past, and what we have and what other people have - you get an average difference which is closely re...
We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do something, it affects you. But if your acquaintances online say or do something, it does not. People on average have about 106 Facebook friends, but only 5 or ...
My biggest fear in life is to be average.
As a kid, I was just a kid. Average.
I'm an average citizen and always have been.
Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
I've never professed to be anything but an average student.
The official recruiting process for their posse began. Because Carlos, Narc, and Trevor each had high SQs, Heeb and Evan reasoned that adding the three to their group would raise the average SQ of each group member (much the way that colleges recruit...
It is never easy for any leader to choose between differentiation and equality. You are condemned either way. When you treat everyone equally, you are considered just by majority as equality benefits below average people and they seem to always be in...
The cult of friendship disturbs me. It's like our quality is supposed to be measured by the number of friends we have. For me, it's quite the inverse. When somebody says "I'm friends with everyone" I just assume they have the spine of your average je...
The average is that which no person quite ever is.
SpookSpeak. Agent n. The average of a double agent and no agent at all.
I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a...
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 hav...
In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years!
For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.
Your average comedian doesn't know the podcast universe, really.
The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
I'm a reasonably good actor, and I'm an average naval officer. Ha, ha!
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
