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• I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; - and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Gay, Thinking

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.115

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• Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Sunset, Fire, Clouds

  'Miracles'

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• Fair play is a jewel.

  Walter Scott

  Jewels, Play, Justice

  Sir Walter Scott (2014). “Redgauntlet”, p.438, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dirty, Practice, Play

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• fight hard, fight fair and persevere

  Edith Nourse Rogers

  Perseverance, Fighting, Perserverance

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• To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is to bring reproach on science. There is nothing for the investigator to do but go straight on, 'to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason;' to follow the light wherever it may lead, even should it at times resemble a will-o'-the-wisp.

  William Crookes

  Knowledge, Science, Light

  "Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science". "Nature", No. 1506, Vol. 58, (p. 438), September 8, 1989.

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• SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray
  From the great source of mental Day,
  Free, generous, and refin'd!
  Descend with all thy treasures fraught,
  Illumine each bewilder'd thought,
  And bless my labour'g mind.

  Mark Akenside

  Science, Mind, Rays

  Mark Akenside, “Hymn To Science”

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• A person who sins neither in thought nor deed, and is fair and just, gains enormous courage and strength. As a leader, you need courage born of integrity in order to be capable of powerful leadership. To achieve this courage, you must search your heart, and make sure your conscience is clear and your behavior is beyond reproach.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Leadership, Courage, Powerful

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• No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Pain

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• It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should begin, whatever the cost, for it is here that you will find true peace, and nowhere else.

  Meister Eckhart

  Spiritual, Cost, Should

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• The God of Christianity never claims to be fair. He goes beyond fair. The Bible teaches that he decided not to give us what we deserve- that's mercy. In addition, God decided to give us exactly what we didn't deserve- we call that grace.

  Andy Stanley

  Spiritual, Giving, Grace

  Andy Stanley (2008). “How Good Is Good Enough?: Since Nobody's Perfect . . .”, p.49, Multnomah

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• Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

  Jean Rostand

  Criticism, Critics, Not Fair

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people, with little muscular activity, a habit of excessive eating [particularly fats and sweets] and may be responsible for great damage to health, to say nothing of the purse.

  Wilbur Olin Atwater

  Sweet, Health, Exercise

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• I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Dream, Thinking, Polite

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• I cannot say, and I will not say
  That he is dead. He is just away.
  With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand,
  He has wandered into an unknown land
  And left us dreaming how very fair
  It needs must be, since he lingers there.
  And you - oh you, who the wildest yearn
  For an old-time step, and the glad return,
  Think of him faring on, as dear
  In the love of There as the love of Here.
  Think of him still as the same. I say,
  He is not dead - he is just away.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Death, Dream, Husband

  James Whitcomb Riley (1982). “The Best of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.107, Indiana University Press

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• Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
  Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,
  And for thy maintenance commits his body
  To painful labour both by sea and land,
  To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
  Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
  And craves no other tribute at thy hands
  But love, fair looks and true obedience;
  Too little payment for so great a debt.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Home

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 147

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• Fair-goes are not only for oneself, but for underdogs. Even in international sporting matches Australians have been known to switch from their own side to that of a gallant challenger. Australians love a 'battler', an underdog who is fighting the top dog, although their veneration for him is likely to pass if he comes out from under.

  Donald Horne

  Sports, Dog, Fighting

  Donald Horne (1966). “The Lucky Country: Australia in the Sixties”

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• We want our leaders to be fair dinkum, as much among us as above us.

  Peter Cosgrove

  Leadership, Leader, Want

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• Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

  Jeremy Collier

  Inspirational, Monday, Learning

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• I can't give you a specific number today, in large part because the analysis upon which we would make that determination has not been completed. . . . I think it is fair to say there may be additional costs associated with a farming operation, but it is very difficult to quantify.

  Tom Vilsack

  Determination, Thinking, Numbers

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• Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Morning, Dawn

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• The United States, which would live on Christian principles with all of the peoples of the world, cannot omit a fair deal for its own Indian citizens.

  Harry S. Truman

  Christian, Citizens, World

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• I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Butterfly, Dying, Fading Away

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems”, p.55

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• I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it is because the world is going through significant changes.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Stress, Thinking, Significant Change

  "Curbing Nuclear Proliferation: An Interview with Mohamed ElBaradei". Interview with Miles Pomper and Paul Kerr, www.armscontrol.org. October 21, 2003.

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• Many things in life are not fair but all things should be.

  Michael Josephson

  Things In Life, Justice, Ethics

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