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Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation. -- Florence Nightingale
Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet. -- Robert Reich
Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes. -- Frank Schatzing
God isn't really interested in our batting averages. -- Dale Murphy
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. -- Bill Mauldin
In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family. -- Peter Diamandis
There is no such thing as a 'correct' weight for any particular height - they are only averages. -- Henry Beard
That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers. -- Rollie Fingers
I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head. -- Dizzy Dean
Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing. -- Bill Buckner
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. -- Douglas Coupland
There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs. -- Neil Patrick Harris
I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages. -- Barry Ritholtz
If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do. -- Vin Scully
I have Twitter auto-post to my Facebook page, and I occasionally post things directly to Facebook as well. I've always noticed that the direct-to-Facebook approach generates far more likes, but I've never actually gone back and run the averages. -- Michael Arrington
I run a program called Amer-I-Can. We've taught in prisons, schools, juvenile facilities and we teach in the community. We have the greatest record from the standpoint of dealing with grade point averages, disciplinary action and attendance in schools. -- Jim Brown
By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't think God would have created this whole big huge cosmos and just say there's only going to be life on Earth, and that's it. -- Gary Wright
Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance. -- Ron Chernow
Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way. -- Ray Dalio
Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will happen. It's the nature of racing, the law of averages. If you want to be a front-runner then you are going to have to push very hard, and collisions can happen. -- Allan McNish
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail. -- Jonathan Kozol
The net promoter score of health insurers averages 4/100. Amazon is 74/100. -- Joshua Kushner
It's the law of averages: put in more, come out with more. -- Bruce Lee
You know the law of averages says: Anything will happen that can -- Steve Goodman
Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle. -- Dixie Lee Ray
Don't leave it to the law of averages to make you break even. -- Mike Caro
The interesting thing about averages is that they hide the truth very effectively. -- Avinash Kaushik
Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages. -- Warren Buffett
Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages. -- Jimmy Cannon
I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again. -- Jimmy Doolittle
Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading. -- Florence Nightingale
A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That's 44% more income for 13% more time. -- Warren Farrell
Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making. -- Richard Louv
In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously. -- Neville Cardus
Not a day goes by that I don't click on RealClearPolitics at least once, the presidential poll charts, graphs and moving averages are great. If RCP didn't already exist, somebody would have to invent it. -- Charlie Cook
Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages to rise by as much as nine degrees Fahrenheit sometime after the year 2000. -- Carl Sagan

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