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• If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.

  John Steinbeck

  Military, Fighting, Finding Yourself

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• Stache’s attack was perfectly timed, thanks to his veteran-pirate grasp tactics—and a big piece if luck.

  Dave Barry

  Pirate, Luck, Pieces

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• Oh. No wonder I'd been sick. I hadn't eaten anything since then. I'm a girl who likes her meals, so it hadn't been a weight-loss tactic. I'd just been too busy bumping from crisis to crisis. Go on the Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance of Death Diet! Run for your life, and miss meals, too! Exercise plus starvation.

  Charlaine Harris

  Girl, Running, Loss

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• I heard the car door shut and then Fabian's voice. "You won't believe what I found around the edge of your property," the ghost announced. "A cave with prehistoric painting inside it!" I rolled my eyes. That was the best tactic Fabian could come up with? This was a vampire he was trying to stall, not a paleontologist.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Believe, Eye, Doors

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• In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or some petty abuse of authority. If you have a political loyalty, you may be offered a shady reason for agreeing to a lie or a half-truth that serves some short-term purpose. Everybody devises tactics for getting through such moments; try behaving "as if" they need not be tolerated and are not inevitable.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Loyalty, Bullying, Average

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.39, Basic Books

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• I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar to Kerrick. It must be a survival tactic. If Allyn hadn't looked so sweet, we would have killed him while he slept. He had been pure evil when he was awake--similar to Kerrick.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Sweet, Brother, Evil

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• Still, they were two thorns from the same thistle. Their tactics in terrorizing innocent ladies were identical. Their behavior was downright sinful, but what made it even worse was the fact that neither warrior seemed to realize the effect he had on others.

  Julie Garwood

  Warrior, Two, Thorns

  Julie Garwood (2011). “The Wedding”, p.111, Penguin

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• The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way. Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.

  Robert Bresson

  Eye, Two, Silence

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.30, New York Review of Books

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• And Prometheus was flying directly toward them. William Shakespeare shifted uncomfortably in his seat. "Now, I've never been a warrior,and I know little about tactics,but shouldn't we be flying in the other direction?" They were close enough now to see the wide-eyed anpu in the nearest craft. "We will," Prometheus said. "Just as soon as the missiles explode." "Which missiles?" Shakespeare asked. "The two just behind us.

  Michael Scott

  Warrior, Two, Flying

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• Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.

  Noam Chomsky

  Purpose, Half, Obsessed

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• I hope that George doesn't internalize her scare tactics. I want to argue with her, tell her that "sins of the flesh" is just a control mechanism -- if you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life. I can't say how many times this tool has been wielded against me, in a variety of forms. But I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation.

  David Levithan

  Kissing, Scare Tactics, Flesh

  David Levithan (2012). “Every Day”, p.223, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.

  Douglas Adams

  Clever, Games, Skills

  Douglas Adams, John Lloyd (2013). “The Meaning of Liff: The Original Dictionary Of Things There Should Be Words For”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

  George W. Bush

  Choices, Community, Democracy

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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• The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself... Some scholars have directly stressed that state interventions create corporatist forms... the formation, let alone the political capabilities, of such purely socioeconomic phenomena as interest groups and classes depends in significant measure on the structures and activities of the very states the social actors, in turn, seek to influence.

  Theda Skocpol

  Philosophy, Class, Political

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• Al Gore’s not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. You got to have an enemy to fight. And when you have an enemy to fight, then you can unite the entire world behind you, and you seize power. That was Hitler’s plan. His enemy: the Jew. Al Gore’s enemy, the U.N.’s enemy: global warming.

  Glenn Beck

  Voice, Goal, Silence

  "Debating Health Care and Rage on the Airwaves". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. July 24, 2009.

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• I’ve been a con artist since I was 16 and trying to get my dad to buy me a car. I never succeeded, but I learnt a lot of tactics.

  Matt Bomer

  Dad, Artist, Car

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• I read all the books on Fairfax in the British Library, did a lot of horse riding and studied military tactics of the time, finding out that he actually laid his rose garden out in strategic formations! But Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting. In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.

  Dougray Scott

  Horse, Military, Book

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think Jefferson and George Washington would strongly discourage you from growing marijuana, and their tactics to stop you would be more violent than they would be today.

  Newt Gingrich

  Marijuana, Thinking, Would Be

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• I gathered all of the Jewish mukhtars, who have contact with Arabs in different villages and asked them to whisper in the ears of some Arabs that a great Jewish reinforcement has arrived in Galile and that it is going to burn all of the villages of the Huleh. They should suggest to these Arabs, as their friends, to escape while there is still time... The tactic reached its goal completely. The building of the police station at Halsa fell into our hands without a shot. The wide areas were cleaned.

  Yigal Allon

  Hands, Goal, Police

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• The will of the United States can be shaken by suiciders and suiciders who are willing to drive up to a Red Cross center, a center of international help and aid and comfort, and just kill. [...] The strategy remains the same. The tactics to respond to more suiciders driving cars will alter on the ground.

  George W. Bush

  Car, Comfort, United States

  "In Bush’s Words: ’We Have the Right Strategy’ on Iraq". News conference in Washington, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2003.

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• No Palestinian, young or old, would be frightened by these Israeli tactics.

  Mohammed Dahlan

  Would Be, Frightened, Young

  "Islamic Jihad member killed in phone booth explosion", www.cnn.com. April 5, 2001.

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• Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.

  Ellen Tauscher

  War, Order, Atmosphere

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• Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).. has had some measure of success.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Success, Israel, Accountability

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• Teamwork remains a sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped because it is hard to measure (teamwork impacts the outcome of an organization in such comprehensive and invasive ways that it's virtually impossible to isolate it as a single variable) and because it is extremely hard to achieve (it requires levels of courage and discipline that few executives possess) - ironically, building a strong team is very simple (it doesn't require masterful insights or tactics).

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Strong, Simple

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• Social media isn't the end-all-be-all, but it offers marketers unparalleled opportunity to participate in relevant ways. It also provides a launchpad for other marketing tactics. Social media is not an island. It's a high-power engine on the larger marketing ship.

  Matthew Dickman

  Opportunity, Islands, Media

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