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• And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

  Rick Moranis

  Thinking, Hair, Worry

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• I'm a Jewish boy from Jersey. I was born with a strong sense of right and wrong, and a strong sense that the world can be a ludicrous, unfair, inhumane place.

  Barry Sanders

  Strong, Boys, World

  "Oregon Book Award Finalist Barry Sanders: the Purposeful Rambler". www.oregonlive.com. April 16, 2011.

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• The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but ‘[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.' To this end, copyright assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work. This result is neither unfair nor unfortunate. It is the means by which copyright advances the progress of science and art.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Art, Mean, Ideas

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• Bad stuff happens.
  Sometimes it makes no sense at all. Sometimes its unfair.
  Sometimes, it just plain sucks.
  Bad stuff happens sometimes.
  Always remember that, but remember that you have to move on somehow. You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky, or the ocean, and you move the hell on.

  James Patterson

  Beautiful, Ocean, Moving

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• Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and happiness: self-reliance and self-investment. Instead, people are told that American is unjust, unfair, and full of disadvantages. They are told that their only hope is for government to fix their problems. What has happened is that generations of people have bought into this nonsense and as result have remained hopelessly mired in poverty and despair -- because the promised solutions don't work. And they will never work -- they never have.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Self, People

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• A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

  Marianne Moore

  Editing, Editors, Hard

  Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, 1963.

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

  Edward Abbey

  Life Is, Fairs, Not Fair

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

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• People say nice things to me -- like that I ought to run for president -- which tells me that they like me. But I have my own deadline for how long I should be in Washington. I think you can get accustomed to red tape and many unfair things that go on in government. Once you stop getting angry about inefficiencies, waste, and injustice, you ought to get out. That's my time limit.

  Elizabeth Holtzman

  Running, Nice, Thinking

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• Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.

  Francis Picabia

  Nature, Equality, Boredom

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• Three year sof unconditional MFN have not lead to any subtantial improvement in human rights, trade and nuclear proliferation practice of the Chinese government. In addition to the trade barriers, China has marred our trade relationship wit prison labor or export and other unfair trade practices.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Rights, Government, Years

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• When you audition for things, there's pressure to go in there with a complete performance, and it's kind of unfair because, if you get it, you'll have rehearsal and talk about it, and you'll have plenty of time with the script. So, for me, I really do feel like an audition is a sketch of what you might do.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Auditions, Rehearsal, Might

  "Elisabeth Moss Talks Jane Campion’s Miniseries TOP OF THE LAKE, Filming in New Zealand, Working with Holly Hunter, the Dark Nature of the Story, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 18, 2013.

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• It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque.

  Albert Einstein

  Character, Fate, Science

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Strength, Hurt, Strong

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• It is not that we had any unfair knowledge that other people didn't have, it is just that we did our homework. People just don't want to believe that anyone can break away from the crowd and rise above mediocrity.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Believe, People, Mediocrity

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• It's unfair of a circle to accuse the angle of being sharp.

  Multatuli

  Circles, Tolerance, Angle

  Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.54, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Now it has appeared to me unfair that humanity should be engaged perpetually in calling all those things bad which have been good enough to make other things better, in everlastingly kicking down the ladder by which it has climbed. It has appeared to me that progress should be something else besides a continual parricide; therefore I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dust, Sea, Humanity

  "The Defendant". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.

  Jerry Weller

  Marriage, Valentines Day, Couple

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• Everyone likes to tell stories. And gossip is, of course, even more exciting, if you know the people. But if the gossip's about yourself, it's very weird. They once wrote about me that I had been clubbing with some guys. At the moment I'm a victim and that hurts because it's not me who does something like that. Such stories are just unfair.

  Blake Lively

  Hurt, Gossip, People

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Secret, Violence, Causes

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.208, Tara Publishing

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• I'm not allowed to make a joke. It is a bit unfair how I'm treated. I thought it was a joke. I got calls and messages. I would rather not to have to worry about things like that. It is disappointing.

  Andy Murray

  Worry, Messages, Disappointing

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• If a German company takes over 51 percent of an Indian one, it is given far-reaching controlling rights. But if an Indian company owns the majority of a German company, it is granted only very limited influence. That is unfair.

  Tulsi Tanti

  Rights, Majority, Influence

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Its fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.

  Bob Graham

  Two, Years, Next

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• Marriage is under attack from so many different areas. There should be benefits associated with married people. Life is unfair. Maybe you won't find the right person and you won't end up getting married. Oh, well, life is unfair. But married people, because of their capacity to have children, even if they're not going to end up having children, even if they're unable to bear children, marriage is an institution that is absolutely central to civilization.

  Ann Coulter

  Children, Civilization, People

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. June 6, 2006.

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• Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. We knew from that moment that things can go terribly wrong in our world-not because life is unfair, or moral progress impossible, but because we have failed, generation after generation, to abolish the delusions of our ignorant ancestors.

  Sam Harris

  Years, Our World, Ignorant

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• It has always seemed unfair to me that many churches (and some individual Christians) keep careful records on how many converts they make to Christianity, but never keep any record of how many they drive away from Christ!

  Ray Stedman

  Christian, Religion, Church

  Ray C. Stedman (2011). “Authentic Christianity: The Classic Bestseller on Living the Life of Faith with Integrity”, p.17, Discovery House

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