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• No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Home, Play

  Gloria Steinem (2015). “My Life on the Road”, p.85, Oneworld Publications

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• So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.

  Jack London

  Play, Way, Ends

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded, then, is a return to these truths.

  Barack Obama

  Loyalty, Honesty, Hard Work

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• There is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can have that perception, the world will begin to work for you, it will begin to move toward you... Nature loves courage, and it shows you that loves courage because it will remove obstacles.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Play, Perception

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• The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get.

  Harry S. Truman

  Powerful, Thinking, Play

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Shall we upon the footing of our land
  Send fair-play orders, and make compromise,
  Insinuation, parley, and base truce,
  To arms invasive?

  William Shakespeare

  War, Order, Land

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King John”, p.72, Courier Dover Publications

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• Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Evil, Conquer, Cheat

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15”, p.344, Penguin

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• In a war the last thing the English know is how to practice fair play.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Practice, Play

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• I know that, as captain, you are in a privileged position and must always abide by Fifa's code of fair play, something which I have always done throughout my career.

  David Beckham

  Play, Careers, Fifa

  "Beckham says sorry". www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2004.

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• Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

  Alan Rosenberg

  What Matters, Play, Bargaining

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural adrenalin. It's a physical manifestation of our rules of life, comradeship, honest endeavour, and a staunch, often ponderous allegiance to fair play.

  Colin Welland

  Life, Baby, Rugby League

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• Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Strong, Play, Economic Inequality

  "The Curse of Bigness: Miscellaneous Papers of Louis D. Brandeis". Book by Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Clarence Martin Lewis, 1965.

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• Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play' must be reconsidered. We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us. It may become necessary that the American people be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.

  Jimmy Doolittle

  Clever, Philosophy, Play

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• Please, compete in the spirit of fair play, mutual understanding and respect. And above all, please compete cleanly by refusing doping.

  Jacques Rogge

  Play, Understanding, Spirit

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• But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Play, Survival, Innocence

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.1147, Penguin

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• None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat and sedimentary sermon after climbing a snowy peak; and the fair play and tremendous impartiality of Nature, so tellingly displayed, will surely affect the after pleadings of the lawyer. Fresh air at least will get into everybody, and the cares of mere business will be quenched like the fires of a sinking ship.

  John Muir

  Blessing, Fire, Climbing

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays”, p.217, e-artnow

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• Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. The parties to the labor contract must be nearly equal in strength if justice is to be worked out, and this means that the workers must be organized and that their organizations must be recognized by employers as a condition precedent to industrial peace.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Strong, Party, Mean

  "The Curse of Bigness: Miscellaneous Papers of Louis D. Brandeis". Book by Osmond Kessler Fraenkel and Clarence Martin Lewis, 1965.

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• We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example, by insistence on fair play wherever we have the power to do so. The rest is in the hands of the Lord, or nature, which swings, apparently, from one extreme to another.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Fighting, Swings, Hands

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• The idea of freedom is quite in accord with a general, though vague, sentiment among us; it is an idea of fair play, of giving everyone a chance; and nothing arouses more general and active indignation among our people than the belief that some one or some class is not getting a fair chance.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Class, Play, Ideas

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• We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines through British history. Our commitment to fairness, fair play and civic duty.

  Gordon Brown

  Country, Commitment, Play

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• 'English fair play' is a fine expression. It justifies the bashing of the puny draper's assistant by the big hairy blacksmith, and this to the perfect satisfaction of both parties, if they are worthy the name of Englishman.

  Joseph Furphy

  Party, Expression, Play

  Joseph Furphy (2016). “Such is Life”, p.342, Joseph Furphy

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• Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.

  Ann Richards

  Country, Believe, Play

  Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 19 July 1988, Atlanta GA

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• Performance enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. OK, we can swing with that. But performance 'debilitating' drugs should not be banned. Smoke a joint and win the 100 metres, fair play for you. That's pretty good. Unless someone's dangling a Mars bar off in the distance.

  Eddie Izzard

  Distance, Winning, Swings

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• As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Play, Competition, Stronger

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• The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in an evil action. It represents a transformation of human character that is significant in its consequences. Such transformations are more likely to occur in novel settings, in "total situations," where social situational forces are sufficiently powerful to overwhelm, or set aside temporally, personal attributes of morality, compassion, or sense of justice and fair play.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Powerful, Character, Compassion

  "Who was Lucifer and how did he become the Devil?". 2007.

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