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• It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

  George Clooney

  Men, Years, Old Man

  "'Ocean's Thirteen,' the Interview". Interview with Josh Tyrangiel, content.time.com. May 30, 2007.

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• The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.

  Gail Collins

  Nsa, Uprising, Special

  "Data, Data, What Do You See?". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 12, 2013.

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• I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up.

  Ice Cube

  Cutting, Blood, Trying

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• "Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter"

  Christopher Peterson

  Moving, People, Psychology

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• I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

  Albert Ellis

  Thinking, Human Condition, Screwed Up

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• I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

  Julian Fellowes

  Thinking, Class, Class System

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• There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.

  Steve Forbes

  Government, People, Money Power

  Steve Forbes (1999). “A New Birth of Freedom: Vision for America”, Regnery Publishing

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• Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other - male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We are part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.

  James A. Baldwin

  White, Forever, Black

  "The Price of the Ticket". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1985.

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• What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Believe, Boys, Parent

  "On the Contrary".

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• Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.

  Christopher Dodd

  Rights, Practice, Decision

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• Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.

  Edwin S. Shneidman

  Perception, Moments, Hindsight

  Edwin S. Shneidman (2004). “Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind”, p.160, Oxford University Press

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• Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Fairness, Employers, Policy

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.349, Macmillan

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• The world is an inherently unfair place.

  Haruki Murakami

  World

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• It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive.

  Lisa Kleypas

  People, Found, Hardest

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.97, Macmillan

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• It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.

  John le Carre

  Eight, Should Have, Solitude

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• It's unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them.

  Lauren Myracle

  Kids, People, Giving

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• When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why should man then expect mercy from God? It's unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Men, Animal, Voice

  Preface to "Food for the Spirit: Vegetarianism and the World Religions" by Steven Rosen, New York: Bala Books, 1987.

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• Keeping your emotions all locked up is something that’s unfair to you. When you clearly know how you feel. You should say it.

  Taylor Swift

  How You Feel, Emotion, Should

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• Yeah, a lot more than he likes you," said Oh. It didn't look like Milo appreciated the joke very much. "That's debatable," said Milo. "Is not," said Oh. She leaned in and put her pink cast against my cheek, kissing me quickly on the lips. "That's incredibly unfair. If we were gay you'd be up a creek without a paddle. You wouldn't even be in the game." "He's right, you know," I said. "Aw. You guys are having a bromance. That's really cute.

  Patrick Carman

  Cute, Gay, Kissing

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• For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together they form the whole basis of my concept of alpinism. Some people see no more in climbing mountains than an escape from the harsh realities of modern times. This is not only uninformed but unfair. I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

  Walter Bonatti

  Real, Climbing, Essence

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• We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Art, Reality, Discipline

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• Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

  Philip Guedalla

  Sports, Hunting, Games

  Philip Guedalla (1921). “Supers & supermen: studies in politics, history and letters”

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• So I came to the realization: Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life.

  Rob Lowe

  Realization, Life Is, Life Is Unfair

  Rob Lowe (2011). “Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography”, p.303, Macmillan

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• It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you're too polite not to. --Polgara

  David Eddings

  Being A Woman, Accepting, Advantage

  David Eddings (2010). “Seeress Of Kell: (Malloreon 5)”, p.93, Random House

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• I suppose in John Kerry's world good diplomacy lets the boys in the bar finish raping the girl for fear of causing a fuss. Okay, that was unfair.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Girl, Boys, Bars

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