I think I'm a little more mature than the average guy.
'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments—which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is d...
History, practical experience, common sense and economic theory all agree: economic competition is probably one of the greatest ideas humans ever came up with. When people compete to achieve the same goal, great things seem to happen that otherwise w...
The student body, too, felt more diverse. Rob spoke often of "real people" with his friends, by which he meant people who struggled, like they all did. On the Ivy League campus visits, any sense of daily or long-term struggle had seemed airbrushed. A...
Many people profess a belief in the existence of a spiritual realm, often aligning with their religious training or background. (Recent surveys indicate that, on average, between 48 percent and 59 percent of Europeans claim to believe in an afterlife...
Yet the organic label itself—like every other such label in the supermarket—is really just an imperfect substitute for direct observation of how a food is produced, a concession to the reality that most people in an industrial society haven’t t...
What I see here, what I feel here is that people in your world believe spirituality isn't distant. It's close and real. Religion seems born in the home, stays in the home. I mean, the services are even held in the home. And there's not one person in ...
Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold n...
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.
Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
Create your own fears; choose to fear living an average life.
I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don't look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever.
Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess.
I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
You'd be hard pressed to find more drama in 'Days of Our Lives' than you do in an average job each day.
I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.
I grew up in an average middle-class family. I don't think I even knew any friends who were fostered or adopted.
I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
