Fairly Quotes
774 Fairly quotes by 662 unique authors
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It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
— Edgar Friedenberg
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Well, I think I've had a fairly meandering career.
— Christina Ricci
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But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of…
— John Stuart Mill
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Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to…
— Jeffery Deaver
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The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only means that people…
— Steven Pinker
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I mean I hate to be conspiratorial, but I mean how do you move that many people from Central America across Mexico and then into…
— Rick Perry
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not…
— John Henry Newman
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There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the standards and taste…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out…
— Heinrich Heine
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Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
— Fritz Kreisler
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Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars
— Clifford Geertz
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When I was a young coach I used to say, "Treat everybody alike." That's bull. Treat everybody fairly.
— Bear Bryant
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I don't know what else I can say. I have never taken steroids. For people who think I took steroids intentionally, I'm never going to…
— Rafael Palmeiro
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If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each of…
— Andrew Solomon
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Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost…
— Jay Inslee
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Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.
— Scott D. Cook
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American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.
— Andy Stern
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It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves…
— Ayn Rand
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I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that America as a…
— Tim Scott
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