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• My tactic is to make eyes at someone.

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  Eye

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• In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

  Kathy Acker

  Lying, Political, Warfare

  Kathy Acker (1997). “Bodies of Work: Essays”, Serpents Tail

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• Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.

  Bobby Seale

  Wings, People, Giving

  "Bobby Seale, Still Revolutionary". Black Star News Interview, www.blackstarnews.com. July 20, 2008.

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• We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate them, humiliate them, use tactics that could scar them for life.

  Dominique Moceanu

  Teaching, Athlete, Healthy

  "Dominique Moceanu Talks Body Image In Gymnastics, Says Coaches Can ‘Scar For Life’". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2013.

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• People hate negative tactics, but the fact is, as the 3 a.m. ad demonstrates, they can be very effective.

  Susan Estrich

  Hate, People, Negative

  "Susan Estrich: Nasty Twists in Democratic Race" by Susan Estrich, www.foxnews.com. March 7, 2008.

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• Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

  Garry Disher

  Red, Fiction, Outcomes

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• It's like guerrilla warfare. If you reveal your location, all it does is allow your opponent to improve his artillery bearings. It's better to move quietly, with stealth, under cover of night. You've got two choices: You can wear cammies and shimmy along on your belly, or you can put on a red coat and stand up for everyone to see. It comes down to whether you want to be the British army in the Revolutionary War or the Viet Cong. History tells us which tactic was more effective.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  War, Moving, Army

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• To picture Roosevelt as a man at this time in his life - he felt he was old. He was 53 years old, feeling lonely and irrelevant. And all of a sudden, he takes on this campaign, and it becomes a crusade for popular government. And he ultimately goes on fire in the campaign, but he discovers he's up against all the old machine tactics that he used to use himself, and he has to let the public get involved. And he energizes the public through the most extreme kind of rhetoric, which truly brings him into the streets and onto his side.

  Geoffrey Cowan

  Lonely, Men, Years

  "The American Political Invention That 'Let The People Rule'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

  William James

  Truth, Self, Giving

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• We know that babies develop as well in nonmaternal as in maternal care, as long as the care is of good quality. The issue is not who gives the care but the quality of that care,... The guilt trip is, in my view, a hangover of another era and of unacknowledged tactics to keep women in their proper place--at home full-time.

  Sandra Scarr

  Baby, Hangover, Home

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• Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.

  Melvin Konner

  Mother, Flower, Sleep

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• I'm sorry, to boycott the Academy Awards is a slap in Chris Rock's face. To host is such a prestigious honor. To boycott it is not the issue. I think it does a disservice to all the African Americans that have worked so hard this year that will be attending and looking at this as an opportunity of a lifetime. I think it's a slap in the face. I understand the sentiment, but I don't appreciate the tactic.

  Eva Marcille

  Sorry, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• It's almost a standard tactic, really, to try to minimize any effort that people in the entertainment business or in any public occupation make to express themselves.

  Viggo Mortensen

  People, Effort, Trying

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• New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles.

  Heinz Guderian

  Wine, Bottles, Weapons

  "Cavalry from Hoof to Track". Book by Roman Jarymowycz, Ch. 16 : Cold Warhorse: Pegasus ex Machina, 2009.

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• Not only has [Donlald] Trump adopted that tactic attacking usual suspects like The New York Times and The Washington Post, but he`s turning it back on the conservative media who invented it in the first place.

  Chris Hayes

  New York, Media, Usual

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president's popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.

  Chaz Bufe

  Peace, War, Election Years

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• I was like so many others passion-ately involved in trying to bring those truths to the world's attention. We did our very best to peacefully do that. The city, state, and federal governments did their very best to quell our efforts. They were used to using heavy-handed tactics to silence us.

  Leonard Peltier

  Passion, Cities, Government

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• The best way to defend the bombers is to catch the enemy before it his in position to attack. Catch them when they are taking off, or when they are climbing, or when they are forming up. Don't think you can defend the bomber by circling around him. It's good for the bombers morale, and bad for tactics.

  Robin Olds

  Thinking, Climbing, Enemy

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• I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war itself became controversial in the country and that the most important thing we need in the current situation is, whatever disagreements there may be on tactics, that the legitimacy of the war itself does not become a subject of controversy. We have to start with the assumption, obviously, that whatever administration is conducting a war wants to end it.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, War, Years

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• There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Kindness, Believe, Heart

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• Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.

  Seth Godin

  Persistence, Goal

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• As the data from the past decade clarify, there is no evidence that poverty causes crime but a great deal of evidence that crime causes poverty. By aligning themselves against the police, against commonsense tactics like stop and frisk, against metal detectors in public housing, against swift and certain punishment, and for a broad array of legal protections for accused criminals, liberals helped to aggrieve the lives of the poor and society as a whole.

  Mona Charen

  Past, Data, Punishment

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• After an inferior man has been taught a doctrine of superiority he will remain as inferior as he was before his lesson. He will merely assume himself to be superior, and attempt to employ his recently-learned tactics against his own kind, whom he will then consider his inferiors. With each inferior man enjoying what he considers his unique role, the entire bunch will be reduced to a pack of strutting, foppish, self-centered monkeys gamboling about on an island of ignorance. There they will play their games under the supervision of their keeper, who was and always will be a superior man.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Ignorance, Unique, Men

  Anton Szandor LaVey (2000). “The Devil's Notebook”, p.143, Feral House

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• A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological or moral or philosophical one, anything but a scientific one. Fetology makes it undeniably evident that life begins at conception and requires all the protection and safeguards that any of us enjoy....As a scientist I know, not believe, know that human life begins at conception.

  Bernard Nathanson

  Believe, Philosophical, Abortion

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• There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Men, Yield, Psychology

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