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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfair Quotes
Words for the moments when things simply don't add up fairly.
These unfair quotes speak to moments of injustice, from sports outcomes that feel rigged to deeper concerns about wealth gaps and inequality. For more on related frustrations, see our Inequality collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Improvement
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- Nov 07, 2020
The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.
- Indian
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's much easier for non-Indian companies to raise capital because they have profitable markets elsewhere. You might call it capital dumping, predatory pricing, or anti-WTO, but it's a very unfair playing field for Indian startups.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I envisage there being absolutely no regulation whatsoever - no minimum wage, no maternity or paternity rights, no unfair dismissal rights, no pension rights - for the smallest companies that are trying to get off the ground, in order to give them a chance.
- Cyprus
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is unfair to ask Turkey to make a unilateral concession to take goods from Cyprus within the customs union when the E.U. is not open to northern Cyprus.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020