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I like honesty and fair play. -- Marcus Garvey
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship. -- Major Taylor
There was no testimony of conspiracy - Oswald's efforts to get in touch with the Soviets and with the Cuban Fair Play groups in New York were rebuffed, rebuffed at every step. -- John Sherman Cooper
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
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. -- Gloria Steinem
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it. -- Maya Angelou
Every settlement with two shacks and a saloon gave itself a name: Helltown, Fair Play, Grizzly Flats, Piety Hill, Whiskey Flat, You Bet, Nary Red, Lousy Ravine, Petticoat Slide. -- Donald Dale Jackson
Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage. -- Alan Rosenberg
Lovers and warriors are not bound by the rules of fair play. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
Fair play to all those who dare to dream and don't give up. -- Marketa Irglova
The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay! -- Homer
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us. -- Eric Hoffer
Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail. -- Mark McKinnon
In a war the last thing the English know is how to practice fair play. -- Adolf Hitler
I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play. -- Thomas Jefferson
Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights. -- Thomas Jefferson
Strong responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice. -- E. L. Doctorow
Sadness... reflecting on the proud legacy of trust and fair play on which Reliance Industries was founded by my visionary father Dhirubhai Ambani, and how far RIL appeared to have moved away from those original values. -- Anil Ambani
The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get. -- Harry S. Truman
Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked. -- Edmund White
In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair play', and on the other hand by aesthetics, that is the cultivation of what is beautiful and graceful. -- Pierre de Coubertin
Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice. -- E. L. Doctorow
The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair. -- Winston Churchill
When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog. -- Miles Franklin
Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women. -- Ann Richards
I stand for the square deal. I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service. -- Theodore Roosevelt
As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger. -- Eliot Spitzer
The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment-or at least much handicap-to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need. -- Michael Parenti
It was a great thing for the Blues boys to do in terms of shaving their hair off for me. The whole squad did it. At first I thought it was only going to be a handful of boys, but fair play, they all did it, and a few of the coaches as well. -- Matthew Rees
There is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can have that perception, the world will begin to work for you, it will begin to move toward you... Nature loves courage, and it shows you that loves courage because it will remove obstacles. -- Terence McKenna
Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail. -- Henry David Thoreau
Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. The parties to the labor contract must be nearly equal in strength if justice is to be worked out, and this means that the workers must be organized and that their organizations must be recognized by employers as a condition precedent to industrial peace. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Be fair. Play hard. -- Dan Venezia
Fair play is a jewel. -- Walter Scott
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals. -- Agnes Repplier
Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. -- Robert Fulghum
The rules of fair play do not apply in love and war. -- John Lyly
Most people play a fair game of golf - if you watch them. -- Joey Lauren Adams
So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you. -- Jack London
Alec rolled beautiful brown eyes. "No fair playing the death card." "No fair having it to play. -- Rachel Vincent
Play fair, be prepared for others to play dirty, and don't let them drag you into the mud. -- Richard Branson
I think Cannes is usually pretty fair in choosing what will play well to the home festival crowd. -- Eric Fellner
The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor. -- Candace Bushnell
FIFA stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well. -- Sepp Blatter
There are two ways love can go. You can be good to each other or you could not play fair. -- Taylor Swift
Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair. -- Rick Riordan
Work hard, play fair, be kind to all living creatures, and take a moment to just sit back and breathe. -- Tricia Helfer
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose. -- Jason Williams
Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair -- Edmund Spenser
Please, compete in the spirit of fair play, mutual understanding and respect. And above all, please compete cleanly by refusing doping. -- Jacques Rogge
The game ain't always fair and that's the thing though, you can play your heart out everyone don't get a ring though -- Drake
The game ain't always fair and that's the thing though. You can play your heart out, everyone don't get a ring though. -- Drake
She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play -- Thomas Hardy
In a mystery, you must play fair by giving all the clues, but disguise them by immediately distracting the reader with something else. -- Joan Lowery Nixon
It's all about having fun. Play hard and fair, don't hurt anybody. Feel good about what you're doing and how you're doing it. -- Eli Manning
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To share is precious, pure and fair. Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there? -- Marvin Gaye
The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense and of cheapness. -- Emily Post
The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair. -- D. A. Carson
The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised. -- Pamela Glass Kelly
There are a lot of grown ups who, should be sent up to their rooms, and told they must stay there, until they learn they can play fair. -- Dawud Wharnsby Ali
It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do. -- William Howard Taft
Interviewer: Would it be fair to describe you as a volatile player? Beckham: Well, I can play in the centre, on the right and occasionally on the left side. -- David Beckham
Who could doubt that sport is a crucial window for the propagation of fair play and justice? After all, fair play is a value that is essential to sport. -- Nelson Mandela
But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here. -- Arsene Wenger
Work hard...have fun...be nice...play fair...dream big. We only get one chance at this life. If you're going to play this game, play it to win. -- Robert Herjavec
I know that, as captain, you are in a privileged position and must always abide by Fifa's code of fair play, something which I have always done throughout my career. -- David Beckham
If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it. -- Thomas Jefferson
I feel like I've always played within the rules. I would never do anything to break the rules. I believe in fair play and I'll always believe in that for as long as I'm playing. -- Tom Brady
When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter. -- Benjamin Franklin
[Football] 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

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