A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.
Greg Walden

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
John B. S. Haldane

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer

A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class.
Marcy Kaptur

A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place.
Margaret Sanger

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Lord Chesterfield

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.
Robert Musil

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
Robert Fripp

Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.
Harvey Fierstein

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
Satchel Paige

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.
Peter Buck

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
John Maynard Keynes

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.
Peter Straub

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.
Bjorn Ulvaeus

And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC.
Fred Thompson

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.
Ethel Merman

As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our graduates have settled in Israel. On average, every year 650 male and female students study in Israel for a minimum of one year.
Norman Lamm

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh.
Aleksandr Lebed