Famous quotes containing the words effective and/or average:
“[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weaponlaughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecutionthese can lift at a colossal humbugpush it a littleweaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“You preferred it to the usual thing:
One dull man, dulling and uxorious,
One average mindwith one thought less, each year.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
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