A Quote by Walter Kaufmann

There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee.

Walter Kaufmann

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Walter Kaufmann
German - Philosopher
July 1, 1921 - September 4, 1980

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

Theodore Roosevelt

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

Mark Twain

I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mark Twain

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Brooks Robinson

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Mort Sahl

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H. L. Mencken

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Satchel Paige

When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when people who earn less than average have the deficiency , or the greater part of it, turned over to them in hand-outs and doles, the production of all must sharply decline; for the energetic and able who lose their incentive to produce more than the average, and the slothful and unskilled lose their incentive to improve their condition.

Henry Hazlitt

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.

CeeLo Green

The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think- Ladies' Home JournalI'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four

Fred Allen

I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

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Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.

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The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.

Morrie Brickman

My intention when I make a film is very clear. I make it for a certain kind of people who have average intelligence - because I am also like that. I have an average sense of humor and an average brain.

Priyadarshan

Why is the 'average man' so far below average?

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