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• I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy

  John Green

  Listening, Social, Said

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.36, Penguin

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• I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually, thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games... "Come from the South, blow from the wind - poom! - North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen."

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Art, Blow

  "The Joy Luck Club". Book by Amy Tan, 1989.

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• A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

  Margaret Atwood

  Men, Handmaids Tale

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's only one racing strategy that matters.It's the one I run by: Get in the lead and don't let anyone pass you.

  Megan McCafferty

  Running, Racing, Matter

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.80, Crown

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• Complaining does not work as a strategy.

  Randy Pausch

  Doe, Complaining

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.218, Hachette UK

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• Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest was ruined. This was his way of controlling the situation, his lifelong strategy for always coming out ahead. Now, when reality looked more dire than any of his fatalisitic predictions, he had no choice but to turn tail and charge in the opposite direction.

  Max Brooks

  Rain, Reality, Years

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.11, Broadway Books

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• I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.

  Saul Bellow

  Clever, Thinking, Age

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• Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard trying to avoid the archer's bolt. The others work their strategies and wait for the old man to fall. He has no power, yet all power moves in his orbit and to his mad whim. Do you know there's no fool piece on the chessboard, Kent?" "Methinks the fool is the player, the mind above the moves.

  Christopher Moore

  Kings, Moving, Fall

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• When I want to be lectured on strategy, I'll consult someone who's actually won battles," Amelie said. "Not one who ran away from them." "Snap," Eve said. "You know what they're talking about?" Shane asked. "Don't need to know to get that one. She smacked him so hard his momma felt it.

  Rachel Caine

  Talking, Battle, Needs

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires”, p.36, Penguin

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• Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

  Don DeLillo

  Prayer, Sin, Advantage

  Don DeLillo (2011). “The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• They know they’ve won,” Carter guessed. “They’re making a show of it.” “Yes,” Amos said. “Well, let’s blow up the boats or something!” I said. Amos looked at me. “Is that your strategy, honestly?

  Rick Riordan

  Blow, Boat, Said

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Traditional religions practices are important.They allow us to share with others the communal experience of adoration and prayer,but we must never forget spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love,and with love,there are no rules some may try to control their emotions and develop strategies for their behavior,others may turn to reading books of advice from "experts" on relationships but this is all folly.The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Prayer, Book

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• When you're a professional you do your job no matter what gets in the way. You might take a sick day, you might take a personal day, but then you show back up or you won't get paid. Everyone develops his/her own strategy for dealing with days that are not productive.

  Charlaine Harris

  Jobs, Sick, Might

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• It wasn't about wanting to die or having nothing left to live for; it was about letting go. You live your life doing what you're supposed to do, following the rules, following your conscience no matter what your gut tells you - and most times, that's okay. Control is good. It allows you to believe in certainty and absolutes, like lining up the perfect shot. But when you hold on for so long, and hold on so tight, every once in a while you have to close your eyes and jump." Kelley Armstrong - Exit Strategy

  Kelley Armstrong

  Letting Go, Believe, Eye

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “Exit Strategy”, p.24, Seal Books

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• The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Enemy, Important, Useless

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.29, Bottom of the Hill

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• If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Sorry, Males, Bills

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• I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy.

  Ilona Andrews

  Eye, Boys, Wonder

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.67, Penguin

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• The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature- but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Country, Grace, Wicked

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.79, Macmillan

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• War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  War, Reading, Winning

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.93, Macmillan

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• Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy.

  John Green

  Failing, Bad Life, Complexity

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• There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Political, Trying, Able

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• The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Religious, Entrepreneur, Pastor

  "The Pastor: A Memoir". Book by Eugene H. Peterson, 2011.

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• Here's some more stuff we're going to need." 1 pair coveralls 1 extension ladder (30 foot) 1 glass cutter 1 artist's portfolio (large) 1 water pistol 1 bottle india ink 1 portable trampoline (collapsible) 1 bicycle w/basket 4 pizza boxes Jonah whistled. "I hope you've got some crazy evil-genius strategy, 'cause–straight up–I don't get it.

  Gordon Korman

  Crazy, Artist, Feet

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• Al: So what's your strategy? Ed: I told you, a fist in his face!

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Fists, Als, Faces

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• Some who support [more] coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom this is true typically turn out to be those accustomed to being controlled— those who are not trusted, given explanations, encouraged to think for themselves, helped to develop and internalize good values, and so on. Control breeds the need for more control, which is used to justify the use of control.

  Alfie Kohn

  Running, Children, Thinking

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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