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Fairness is a term that is interpreted different ways. For the government, fair is whatever suits their needs.

Kenneth Eade
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Fairness is a term that is interpreted different ways. For the government, fair is whatever suits their needs.

Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files
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Those are just platitudes. Everyone has his own idea of "playing fair." "Does he? Try making up your own idea of what's fair--say, "giving the greatest rewards to the laziest workers"--and see how seriously people take you.

J. Budziszewski, What We Can't Not Know: A Guide
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If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

Peter Jackson
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But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere.""'They?' Who are 'they?'""I don't know. Just people.""That's what the victorious claim, not the defeated; the powerful, not the powerless. 'All is fair.' 'The end justifies the means.' Is that what you believe?

John Connolly, The Infernals
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Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.

Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid
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You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself.Know that a well-honed sense of justice is a measure of personal experience, and all experience is a measure of self.Know that the highest expression of justice is mercy.Thus, as the supreme judge in your own court, you must have compassion for yourself.Otherwise, cede your gavel.

Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Abraham Lincoln
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Everyone cares about fairness, but there are two major kinds. On the left, fairness often implies equality, but on the right it means proportionality —people should be rewarded in proportion to what they contribute, even if that guarantees unequal outcomes.

Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
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I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.

William Giraldi
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Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty.

Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune
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