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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu

Life, Work, Family

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Yourself, Others, Ask

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx

Great, History, Sex

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Good, Perhaps

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost

Rain, Place, Weather

Farewell, fair cruelty.
William Shakespeare

Farewell, Cruelty

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
William Shakespeare

Mind, Villain, Terms

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
William Shakespeare

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
William Shakespeare

Woman, Made, She

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Groucho Marx

Life, Fake, Honesty

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
Bryant H. McGill

Selfish, Liars, Often

Life is not fair; get used to it.
Bill Gates

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

War, Jealousy, Nothing

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates

Computers, Creativity, Become

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.
Michelle Obama

Success, Truth, Integrity

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.
Barack Obama

History, Simple, Same

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.
Barack Obama

Faith, Time, Long

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
Thomas Sowell

Life, Government, General

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
Warren Buffett

Wonderful, Far, Company

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature, Through, Law

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
George Orwell

Yourself, Against, Simply

I like honesty and fair play.
Marcus Garvey

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
George Orwell

Life, Fun, Young

Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Robert Fulghum

Hurt, Sorry, Play

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'
Jeff Foxworthy

Family, Feeling, Start

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Made, Rich, Poverty

People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.
Billy Graham

Negative, Quite, York

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
Bill Watterson

Why, Unfair, Favor

I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.
Hillary Clinton

Today, America, United

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
Mortimer Adler

Love, True, Giving

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