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  Las grandes mentes discuten ideas; las mentes medias discuten acontecimientos; las mentes pequeñas discuten personas.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspiración, Vida, Motivación

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• No estoy más dotado que nadie. Simplemente soy más curioso que la media de las personas y no abandonaré un problema hasta que haya encontrado la solución adecuada.

  Albert Einstein

  Giving Up, Average, Problem

  Peter A. Bucky, Albert Einstein, Allen G. Weakland (1992). “The private Albert Einstein”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

  Franz Kafka

  Average, Sometimes, Life Is

  Franz Kafka (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial, ...)”, p.175, Franz Kafka

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• Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Life, Butterfly, Average

  Ellen DeGeneres (2003). “The Funny Thing Is...”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think you ever outgrow your love for things that are bigger than life and more colorful than the average life. And somehow I feel that these comic book stories are like fairy tales for older people, because they have the same qualities.

  Stan Lee

  Book, Thinking, Average

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• When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity.

  Bill Gates

  Smart, Kids, Average

  "LA ENTREVISTA DE BILL GATES: Se avecina un milagro energético que cambiará el mundo". Entrevista con Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. 22 de febrero de 2016.

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• One of the things that got me on this topic for this book was that when I was researching the column I wrote in 2009 saying that I was stepping down from my column at "Newsweek" because I wanted to make room for newer, fresh voices out there, I discovered that in the year I was born, 1952, the average life expectancy of an American was 68. I was shocked by that figure and every time I mention it I hear a gasp from somebody in the crowd. Now, of course, we're more or less at 80, so that means that we've gotten 12 additional years.

  Anna Quindlen

  Book, Mean, Average

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• The average life expectancy rate in some parts of Glasgow is 54. If you've ever been there, you'll realize that that's maybe a bit long.

  Frankie Boyle

  Divertido, Humor, Largo

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• Los seres humanos han sido lo bastante inteligentes como para poner la naturaleza a su servicio, generar enormes riquezas para sí mismos y duplicar su esperanza media de vida. Pero, ¿lo son para resolver los problemas del siglo XXI?

  Thomas Homer-Dixon

  Smart, Average, Problem

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• Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Average, Evil, Affliction

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• The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

  Mike McCready

  Average, Years, Long

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• Only 1 percent of the homosexual population in America will die of old age. The average life expectancy for a homosexual in the United States of America is 43 years of age. A lesbian can only expect to live to be 45 years of age. Homosexuals represent 2 percent of the population, yet today they're carrying 60 percent of the known cases of syphilis.

  Rod Parsley

  Average, Years, America

  "Gay Bowel Syndrome? Yeah, Right" by David Holthouse, www.alternet.org. February 8, 2006.

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• Una cosa buena del Tercer Mundo es que no tienes que abrocharte el cinturón. (O dejar de fumar. O reducir las grasas saturadas.) Te quitas muchas cosas de la cabeza cuando la esperanza media de vida es de cuarenta y cinco minutos.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Nice, Cutting, Average

  "Holidays in Hell". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1988.

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• The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

  Moby

  Average, Years, Coal

  "I long for that sober connection" by Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2008.

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• In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

  Martha Beck

  Average, Years, Brain

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• I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

  Ben Barnes

  Uncles, War, Average

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