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To be fair, my analysis failed to spell out Obama's first-term accomplishments, although I did acknowledge his 'enormous skills' and tried to focus readers on the distinction between good and great presidencies.
Ron Fournier

Good, Great, Focus

I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.
Loretta Lynn

State, Won, Blue

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.
John Millington Synge

Men, Different, Another

There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.
James Cash Penney

Friend, Merchant, Competitor

To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Men, Dad, Brightest

Everything that I have professionally, and so much of what I have personally, is because of this great, fair city, and to see it being drowned like this is almost unbearable.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Great, Almost, City

I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.
Patti LaBelle

Woman, Matter, Gave

I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
Dan Rather

Group, Tried, Advocate

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
June Jordan

Attitude, Yourself, Enemy

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Jean Rostand

Critics, Resist, Heed

The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Real, Prices, Valley

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.
Jesse Ventura

Side, Gave, Using

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
William Allen White

Others, Since, Tolerate

The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.
John L. Lewis

Waiting, Tired, Political

Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.
Elton John

Share, Britain, Battling

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
Harold Wilson

Acceptance, Whatever, Wind

It's been painful to see the people that you love be attacked when you know it's not fair or true.
Jeb Bush

Love, True, Painful

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.
Norah Jones

Music, Somebody, Daughter

How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
Edmund Waller

Time, Small, Sweet

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
Harlan Coben

Good, Evil, Game

In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections... Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy.
Cynthia McKinney

America, Free, President

I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.
Danica Patrick

Love, Before, Play

It's like, 'You're not allowed to change. That's not fair. We like you like this.' But I don't. So let me expand and express myself.
Joss Stone

Change, Express, Expand

I've always said that with kids' TV that people get stuck in it from drama school but that's not fair because I know myself that when you go in creatively, kids are so much more open to ideas. You're so much freer to mess about and try things.
Johnny Vegas

School, Try, Said

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.
James Buchan

Work, Great, Another

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

Faith, Work, Money

Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.
Arlen Specter

Education, Health, Strong

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
Gary Oldman

Mistakes, Envy, Democracy

People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.
David Ortiz

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.
Tommy Chong

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