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Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought to face.

Frank Medlicott

Running, Reality, Thinking

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Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.

Grenville Kleiser

Believe, Giving, Deception

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... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three R's, a littlemusic and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite enough generally to render charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity.

Anna Julia Cooper

Men, Thinking, Dancing

Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

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Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country--demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted as current coin quick wit, appreciative tact, and a talent for talking.

M. E. W. Sherwood

Country, Talking, Quick Wit

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Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion, loyalty, diplomacy, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, polish, confidences, promises, ambition, consistency, identity, clarity, comprehensibleness, good will, hypocrisy, and lots of other things--amass sacrifice, at truth's altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be, in fact.

Marvin L. Cohen

Loyalty, Truth, Ambition

"Fables at Life's Expense". Book by Marvin Cohen, 1975.

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A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his notions about it may be vague and inaccurate; but speak he must. And if he is a man of ability, of tact, and of intrepidity, he soon finds that, even under such circumstances, it is possible to speak successfully.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Men, May, Politics

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Look not thou on beauty's charming;
Sit thou still when kings are arming;
Taste not when the wine-cup glistens;
Speak not when the people listens

Walter Scott

Kings, Wine, People

Walter Scott, James Reed (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.31, Psychology Press

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Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art. Critical genius means an aptitude for discerning truth under appearances or in disguises which conceal it; for discovering it in spite of the errors of testimony, the frauds of tradition, the dust of time, the loss or alteration of texts. It is the sagacity of the hunter whom nothing deceives for long, and whom no ruse can throw off the trail.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Art, Mean, Loss

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Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.

Arthur Helps

Art, Business, Character

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I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.

Perry Brass

World, Stylish, Persons

Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.29, Perry Brass

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God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sad, Art, Play

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.325, Delphi Classics

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Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.

William James

Teacher, Art, Teaching

William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.16, Harvard University Press

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Legal reform has significant dangers: changing only the window-dressing of harmful systems but leaving the violence of the systems in tact, failing to provide actual relief for those facing the worst conditions, and legitimizing or expanding systems of harm.

Dean Spade

Leaving, Reform, Relief

"On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

Hudson Taylor

Failing, Missions, Politeness

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What children, in fact all of us at any age, find frightening is unreliability and emotional coldness. The idea that you can't affect someone, that you can't see where they're coming from and can change tact at any moment.

Tilda Swinton

Children, Emotional, Ideas

Source: movieweb.com

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From time to time, I am asked--by people with an alarming lack of tact--why a man like myself, who has demonstrated an affinity for working with children, has none of his own. Other people's children are quite enough, thank you.

Rupert Giles

Children, Men, People

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To extraordinary powers of labor, both mental and physical, he unites that tact and judgement which are requisite to the successful direction of such an office as that of Chief Magistrate of a free people.

Andrew Jackson

Successful, Office, People

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Lies hold civilization together. If people ever seriously begin telling each other what they really think, there'd be no peace. Good-bye to tact. Good-bye to being polite. Good-bye to showing tolerance for other people's buffooneries. The fact that we claim to admire Truth is probably the biggest lie of all. But that's part of the charade, part of what makes us human, and we do not even think about it. In effect, we lie to ourselves. Lies are only despicable when they betray a trust.

Jack McDevitt

Lying, Thinking, Civilization

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I don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changing tact, because I think that is the key to longevity in a career.

John C. Reilly

Thinking, Keys, Careers

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 2011.

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Having a separate fund for the things in life that happen, helps keep the emergency fund in tact in case you lose your job or income.

Michelle Singletary

Jobs, Things In Life, Emergencies

"Color of Money Live". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. March 10, 2016.

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Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.

Bill Jay

Photography, Two, Choices

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I actually love...Well I love both of them [Paris Hilton or Britney Spears] but I really love Paris Hilton. I interviewed her once, she had a record coming out. She was DJing and promoting that. It was actually only a couple of years ago. She had her persona in tact when I was interviewing her and then after we broke she came for a cigarette with me and I just found it so... she's so intelligent and interesting and obviously is playing the game.

Alexa Chung

Couple, Intelligent, Years

Source: www.elle.com

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