Fairs Quotes - Page 37

• A fair trial would have been no trial at all.

  Angela Davis

  Trials, Fair Trial, Has Beens

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• If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men and women to capitalize their labor.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Country, Men, Ideas

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• All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder.

  Obafemi Awolowo

  War, Fighting, Order

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• Even Jesus Christ cannot conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Jesus, Election, Christ

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• If you're honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out.

  Kate Spade

  Inspirational Life, Work Out, Honest

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• We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair

  Malcolm Gladwell

  World, Natural, Advantage

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• If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Thinking, World

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• The minute you stop expecting life to be simple, fair and easy... it becomes simple, fair and easy.

  John Spence

  Thinking, Simple, Easy

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• All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Selfish, People

  'The Conduct of Life' (1860) 'Considerations by the way'

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• Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

  Noah Porter

  Inspirational, Leadership, Determination

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• People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.

  Sri Mulyani Indrawati

  People, Expectations, Accountability

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• Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

  Walter Scott

  Life, Pain, Suits

  Sir Walter Scott (1866). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.102

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• Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood
  In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?

  William C. Bryant

  Sister, Flower, Light

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”

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• Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.

  Edward Abbey

  Life Is, Unfair, Not Fair

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.14, Macmillan

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• On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show that most Americans share what one could call core liberal or progressive values: investment in health care and education over tax cuts; fair trade over free trade; corporate accountability over deregulation; environmental protection over laissez-faire policies; defending Social Security and Medicare over privatizing them; raising the minimum wage over eliminating it. The country prefers progressive alternatives to the failed policies of the conservative right.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Country, Health, Cutting

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• The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I was going to live with this thing, I was going to have to think about what that meant. There were not going to be any pictures without it.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Determination, Heart, Thinking

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• Look, I'm not asking you to like me, I'm not asking you to put yourself
  in a position where I can touch your goodies, I'm just asking you to be
  fair.

  Homer

  Looks, Asking, Like Me

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• If it doesn't have siamese twins in a jar, it is not a fair.

  Homer

  Jars, Twins, Funny Simpsons

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• In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

  Thucydides

  Office, Democracy, Failing

  "History of the Peloponnesian War". Book by Thucydides, Book VIII, 8.89, 431–404 BC.

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• But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.

  Ivan Lendl

  Sports, Player, Games

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• The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine.

  Andrew Sarris

  Mother, Emotional, Wife

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• In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.'

  William Safire

  Order, Judging, Style

  "Essay; Seizing Dictatorial Power" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. November 15, 2001.

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• Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Self, Soul, Elements

  Elizabeth Bishop, “The Imaginary Iceberg”

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• There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.

  John Grisham

  Trials, Judgment, Fair Trial

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• Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived and a star kills. He is greater than those bright blind companies. For though in them there is incalculable potentiality, in him there is achievement, small, but actual. Too soon, seemingly, he comes to his end. But when he is done he will not be nothing, not as though he had never been; for he is eternally a beauty in the eternal form of things.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Stars, Men, Done

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