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• Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Keys, Decision, Lessons

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• The commander must be at constant pains to keep his troops abreast of all the latest tactical experience and developments, and must insist on their practical application. He must see to it that his subordinates are trained in accordance with the latest requirements. The best form of welfare for the troops is first-class training, for this saves unnecessary casualties.

  Erwin Rommel

  Pain, Communication, Class

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• In futsal, you see whether a player is really talented. You notice the small details in quality, class and tactical understanding.

  Xavi

  Player, Class, Understanding

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• Running back-to-back races requires a certain tactical prudence. Going too hard in any one race might jeopardize your performance in another. Maintaining proper hydration and caloric equilibrium also becomes increasingly critical.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Hydration, Race

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• Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)

  Vince Flynn

  Mistake, Stupidity, Enemy

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• Some liberation theologians maintain that they are not influenced by Marxist philosophy at all. In this case it is necessary to discern whether they say this for tactical reasons, so as not to be compromised politically or whether they are really convinced that Marxism doesn't influence them in any way. I personally think that it is not possible to evade the influence of Marxism, as we cannot commit ourselves to the revolutionary struggle without drawing support from the conclusions of scientific socialism.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Philosophy, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.crisismagazine.com

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• Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.

  Vinod Khosla

  Jobs, Apples, Entrepreneur

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• If you've had a bad experience with an agent, you have to move past it. You are bound to want a player at some stage who is represented by this guy and you will have to try to work around the personality of the agent. You tend to work out what makes them tick, what they respond to. You have to have tactical plans to get a deal over the line.

  Alan Pardew

  Moving, Player, Past

  Source: www.espnfc.com

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• Our cities need to change, fast. Tactical Urbanism is a guided tour of solutions created when local people decide they can't wait for politics to catch up before they improve their neighborhoods. This weathervane book deserves a place on any urbanist's bookshelf.

  Alex Steffen

  Book, Cities, People

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• To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.

  Dave Barry

  Gun, Europe, Wind

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• The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast, the narrowing of the frontage made it easier for the defender to switch his local reserves to any threatened point on the defensive arc.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Army, Levers

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• Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.

  George Tenet

  Two Sides, Iraq, Ties

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• He should release the tax returns tomorrow. It's crazy. You've got to release six, eight, ten years back tax returns. Take the hit for a day or two. He has to give a big speech in defense of capitalism, and that will elevate, I think, this race above this tactical back and forth, which I do think he's on the margin of losing.

  William Kristol

  Crazy, Thinking, Eight

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• Most Americans will be horrified that President Obama is compromising our deterrent to chemical and biological attacks on this country. Our allies will also be troubled by his aspiration to eliminate U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.

  Frank Gaffney

  Country, Europe, President

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• I am sorry to be so blunt, but I do not see much ambiguity here. [Barack] Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture. And now he is quick to make allies with the Muslim Brotherhood for tactical reasons as well (though earlier that same administration stoked Islamophobic fear about that very political party).

  Judith Butler

  Sorry, Military, Party

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• Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.

  Vinod Khosla

  Views, Entrepreneur, Decision

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• We are entirely for the idea that Europe shall be free from nuclear weapons, from medium-range weapons as well as tactical weapons. That would be a real zero option.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Zero, Real, Europe

  "Nuclear War: The Search for Solutions". Book by Leonard V. Johnson, 1985.

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• Previously I always thought it was just tactical and technique, but every match has become almost mental and physical - I try to push myself to move well. I try to push myself not to get upset and stay positive, and that's what my biggest improvement is over all those years. Under pressure I can see things very clear.

  Roger Federer

  Moving, Years, Stay Positive

  "Federer's mental powers keep record in sight" by Richard Jago, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2007.

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• In trying to explain our political paralysis, analysts cite President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington, and the Senate filibuster, which has devolved into a super-majority threshold for important legislation. These are large factors to be sure, but that list neglects what may be the biggest culprit of all: the childishness, ignorance, and growing incoherence of the public at large.

  Jacob Weisberg

  Ignorance, Political, Important

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• A strategic plan based on the over-all situation of both belligerents is ... more stable, but it too is applicable only in a given strategic stage and has to be changed when the war moves towards a new stage. ... [Conversely, tactical plans may] ... have to be changed several times a day.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Moving, May

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• Well we always need brave, capable young men and women who can run a tactical operation and take risks on the battlefield but you should know when we need you to go in there, that if there's any other way to do it, that we could do this without risking your life, we wouldn't ask you to risk your life.

  Wesley Clark

  Running, Men, Brave

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows that some of us mortals have the power to destroy the human race and man's home on earth. We need not even make war; only by preparing, by playing with our new weapons, we poison the air, the water, the soil of our plants, damage the health of the living, and weaken the chances of the newborn.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Home, Men

  Martha Gellhorn (1959). “The Face of War”

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• I don't think the Democrats should think in narrow tactical terms about mid-term elections.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Election, Should

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Italian football is great but for me, for the style of player I am, I found it too tactical, too slow.

  Djibril Cisse

  Football, Italian, Player

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• I have made a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't have made that decision. And I'll take responsibility for them. I'm human.

  George W. Bush

  Responsibility, Decision, Looks

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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