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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. -- Laurence J. Peter
Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top. -- Jessica Savitch
From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood. -- Bryan Burrough
Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised. -- Herbert Croly
The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system. -- Joe Baca
I think that's what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether it's education or housing. -- David Cunliffe
I'm changing lineups obviously to give everybody their best opportunity to show what they can do. Just giving everybody their fair chance to assess that properly. -- Michael Cooper
It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance. -- Barney Oliver
If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair. -- Bill Gates
I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful. -- Allan Sloan
Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world. -- Vivienne Westwood
If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream. -- Michelle Obama
Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw. -- Walter Dean Myers
Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial? -- Alex Berenson
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 don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly. -- Dan Glickman
It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance. -- Margaret Fuller
I've always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount of external action. While writing 'Chance,' it occurred to me that this is the most internal book I've ever written. So much of the action takes place in Chance's head. -- Kem Nunn
I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it. -- Damon Lindelof
Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve. -- Lorrie Fair
Times go by turns, and chances change by course, from foul to fair, from better hap to worse. -- Robert Southwell
When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair. -- E. B. White

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