The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.


Colin Powell

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I'm right below above average intelligence.
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I'm right above below average intelligence.
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It's well above average this afternoon.
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The price for being above average is having a hard time finding people like yourself.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER
Obviously it's above average, or even superior.
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You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
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She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.
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With this agreement, we're above average in the (Mexican) automotive industry.
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It's not the average people that come to my show.
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called Peter Wallison -- Told him Colin Powell had only minimum involvement on Iran.
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It's a fair price only if you believe Citigroup is an average company. I think it's an above-average...
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I think we've had three years in a row of above-average rainfalls.
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We had a good turnout, I'm going to guess that it was above average.
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If you want to experience above-average returns, technology is the place to be.
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Peter Wallison -- Told him Colin Powell had only minimum involvement on
Iran.
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Fidelity has an above average number of talented managers, ... They're the best in the business.
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ALAN BROWN
Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.
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I did tell the President that we need a lot of Colin Powell and very little of Rumsfeld
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I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
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I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man
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The average life is average
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If you're above the state average (on the MEAP tests), you should feel comfortable about the AYP.
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Probably what Quest is seeing is an opportunity to access an above-average labor force.
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My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.
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Average people get to school late; they're average. They barely do their school work.
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Average is probably about 10 hours of effort to be able to ride around the block.
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The quality of Apple's advertising is consistently above average. And more often than not, it's worl...
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I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.
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The absence of competition creates mediocrity.
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Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above-average.
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I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on th...
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It's average, ... Not phenomenal by any means.
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People with a high vocabulary will often detect that they are having problems, ... but if you give t...
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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
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My goal was to keep my average above .290. As long as I did that, I was happy.
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I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.
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The average dog is a nicer person than the average person
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The average person has one Fallopian tube.
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I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.
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Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
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Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
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I'd like to say it is only average people who revel in the mistakes of others.
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advance America's foreign policy interests overseas - the backbone of our foreign affairs.
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most candid and direct conversations about what we do that annoys the other.
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The trucks and train cars are easily moved and are designed to evade detection by inspectors, ... In...
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[The pictures] stunned every American, ... They showed acts that are despicable. The president has s...
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market dynamism has replaced dogmatism.
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because of the human dimensions of this catastrophe.
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This is very regrettable
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a serious impediment to the conduct of America's foreign policy.
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only a struggle to defend values ... which we share with the West and the vast majority of Arabs.
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if your life is not better.
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If he feels it is that important an assertion to make, he ought to list some names,
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I am pleased to hear that decrees have now been issued that should have been issued years and years ...
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Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they...
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The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve.
Any time you tolerate...
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The plan that is out there -- A, B and C -- is the Mitchell report, ... It calls for a cessation of ...
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You are going to be the proud owner of 25 million people. You will own all their hopes, aspirations ...
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We will be with you in this current crisis and in the future,
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We want that. But we can't do it in a hurried manner before the Iraqis are prepared to discharge tho...
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Now, if the sources fell apart, then we need to find out how we've gotten ourselves in that position...
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We know that there are occasions that arise when terrorists are coming in, and we know a bomb is hea...
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there was reason for guarded optimism. And let us be clear about what brought it all to a halt -- te...
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There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfe...
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I for one am not going to apologize that somehow we took Saddam Hussein out and we're putting in a d...
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It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my positi...
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seeing some convergence of views.
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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in ...
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the level of a mammoth new campaign.
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We wanted it to be a special program of the State Department. Randy worked for me.
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Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earne...
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