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• I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Pain, Thinking, People

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Miles Errant”, p.444, Baen Books

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• Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer. " The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move.

  Michael Lewis

  Pain, Moving, Gains

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• Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Audacity, Principal

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• Survival strategy. If you’re not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee’s like bait for the beasts.

  Rachel Vincent

  Survival, Bait, Alive

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Never to Sleep”, p.18, Harlequin

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• The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.

  Noam Chomsky

  Keys, Issues, Political

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• We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?

  John Green

  Grizzly Bears, Grizzlies, Hog

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.156, Penguin

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• Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.

  John Green

  Boys, Monopoly, Staring

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.172, Penguin

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• Oh yes, I have learned much from Tremorlor, and so assume a like strategy. Silence, a faint mocking smile suggesting I know more than I do, an air of mystery, yes, and fell knowledge. None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions!

  Steven Erikson

  Air, Confusion, Silence

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• Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.

  Ronald Reagan

  Military, War, Winning

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• That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I’m watching that reddish mane of hair disappear into the trees well out of shooting range.

  Suzanne Collins

  Frustration, Hair, Should Have

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.278, Scholastic Inc.

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• Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Stress, Thinking, Light

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• Jayden laughed grimly. 'Press the attack and hope for the best.' 'Hope is not a strategy,' said Kira 'It's not plan A,' said Jayden, 'and it shouldn't be plan B, but it is every plan C that has ever been made.

  Dan Wells

  Kira, Made, Said

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• Our romance became a key strategy for our survival in the arena. Only it wasn't just a strategy for Peeta.

  Suzanne Collins

  Keys, Romance, Survival

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.9, Scholastic Inc.

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• Which means that in order to defeat her, I have to think of a way to defeat myself. And how can I be a better fighter than myself, if she knows the same strategies I know, and is exactly as resourceful and clever as I am?

  Veronica Roth

  Clever, Mean, Thinking

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• Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It 's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God .

  Timothy Keller

  Father, Mean, Son

  "The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith".

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• She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.

  Pat Conroy

  Mirrors, Camouflage, Wells

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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• I’m not suggesting the world is good, that life is easy, or that any of us are entitled to better. But please, isn’t this the kind of thing you talk about in somber tones, in the afternoon, with some degree of hope and maybe even a handful of strategies?

  Richard Siken

  Degrees, Afternoon, World

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• No one must ever let power or social, economic, or political interest turn him or her away from other human beings, from the attention they deserve and the respect they are entitled to. nothing must ever lead to a person to compromise this principle or faith in favor of a political strategy aimed at saving or protecting a community from some peril. The freely offered, sincere heart of a poor, powerless individual is worth a thousand times more in the sight of God than the assiduously courted, self-interested heart of a rich one.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Heart, Sight, Self

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• When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed, the heart lies in great stony ruin at your feet. If you succeed in breaking it, the job is done once and for all. It will not be repaired.

  Charles Baxter

  Broken Heart, Jobs, Lying

  Charles Baxter (2001). “The feast of love”, Vintage

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• Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I looked him over and soon it was a staring contest. After a while the boy smiled, and then finally his blue eyes glanced away. When he looked back at me, I flicked my eyebrows up to say, I win. He shrugged

  John Green

  Eye, Winning, Boys

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.172, Penguin

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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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• In keeping with his cryptic nature, all your Story Weaver said was 'The horses know where to go.' It's certainly not a military strategy I would use, but I've learned that the south uses its own strategy. And, strangely enough, it works.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Horse, Military, Stories

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Magic Study”, p.284, Harlequin

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• Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Momentum, Way, Ifs

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Komarr”, p.144, Baen Books

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• There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.

  Michel Foucault

  Silence, Discourse

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.27, Vintage

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• I love your bracelet!’ I said to the brunette next to me, because, while most girls are onto the whole stranger-with-candy thing, the strangers-with-compliments strategy is still remarkably effective.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Next, Compliment

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