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• Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Friendship, Forgiveness, War

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• When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out.

  Lewis Black

  Running, America, Energy

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• If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, Believe, School

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• If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

  Max Born

  Order, Perfect, Needs

  Max Born (2013). “Physics in My Generation”, p.63, Springer

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• I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

  Jo Brand

  Thinking, Keys, Attributes

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• There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Government, Income, Neighbor

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• The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

  Phillips Brooks

  Christmas, Song, Xmas

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• A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.

  Harry Browne

  Judging, Trials, Assumption

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• The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that aren't fair, and I check them. And then they don't like me because I checked them.

  Kobe Bryant

  People, Trying, Don't Like Me

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• I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Connections, Income, Use

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• It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, Investing Money

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.150, John Wiley & Sons

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• Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

  Cliff Burton

  Fate, Games, Fields

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• It's been painful to see the people that you love be attacked when you know it's not fair or true.

  Jeb Bush

  Love Is, People, Painful

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• We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers.

  Herman Cain

  Long, Needs, Use

  "Herman Cain: 'Replace the Tax Code'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. April 18, 2011.

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• The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's a fact.

  Herman Cain

  Class, People, Giving

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• I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution, not to just say we're going to trim around the edges, not to say that we will try to simplify a little of this and a little of that. The problem is, replace the tax code, so we can establish tax fairness for everybody.

  Herman Cain

  Thinking, Trying, Would Be

  "Herman Cain: 'Replace the Tax Code'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. April 18, 2011.

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• Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.

  Donald Cargill

  May, Kingdoms, Gale

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• If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Unfair, Proportionality

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• If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Life, Clever

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• The greatest thing that prepared me for editing Vanity Fair was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind.

  Graydon Carter

  Kids, Vanity, Editing

  "Vanity flair". Interview with Janine Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2007.

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• Fair and softly goes far.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Compassion, Literature, Fairness

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1719). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux”

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• Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Fear, Integrity, Literature

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...”, p.93

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• And she was fair as is the rose in May.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Flower, Rose, May

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Legend of Good Women: Easyread Large Edition”, p.27, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.

  Tommy Chong

  Teenager, Radio, Firsts

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• According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Damage, Injury

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