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• There's been a lot of comparisons to "The Prisoner," and sometimes people take a negative tact on that, but to be really honest, I count that as a compliment, in the sense that what I felt "The Prisoner" was for the '60's, in how the individual triumphs over the state and authority, our show is really about how complacent we have become in our lives, which are scrutinized.

  Remi Aubuchon

  People, Triumph, Negative

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• The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.

  Puzant Kevork Thomajan

  Gentleman, Defense, True Gentleman

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• Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.

  Raymond Mortimer

  Inspirational, Art, People

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• Talent without tact is only half talent.

  Horace Greeley

  Half, Talent

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• So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact.

  Dr. Seuss

  Positive, Steps, Happy Birthday Inspirational

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]

  W. Somerset Maugham

  People, Acting, Elements

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• I have the necessary lack of tact.

  Ted Koppel

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

  Gregory Peck

  Tales, Discretion

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• You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want.

  Mason Cooley

  Ideas, Want, No Idea

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• It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

  Joseph Cook

  Mediocrity, Talent, Thrive

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• Tact is just lying for adults.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Adults

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• Difficulties melt away under tact.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Difficulty

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Tancred: Or, The New Crusade”, p.86

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• Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.

  Earl Tupper

  Admire, Ifs

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• Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sleep, Genuine, Ifs

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.684, Everyman's Library

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• Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Matter, Ends, Pins

  "Tools Of Speech". Book by Maturin M.ballou, 1886.

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• Tact is good taste in action.

  Diane de Poitiers

  Taste, Action, Good Taste

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• Tact is rubbing out another's mistakes, not rubbing them in.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Mistake

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• In order to avoid contention, never contradict anyone, except in case of sin or some danger to a neighbor; and when necessary to contradict others, and to oppose your opinion to theirs, do it with so much mildness and tact, as not to appear to do violence to their mind, for nothing is ever gained by taking up things with excessive warmth and hastiness.

  Louis IX of France

  Anger, Order, Mind

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• I should say tact was worth much more than wealth as a road to leadership.... I mean that subtle apprehension which teaches a person how to do and say the right thing at the right time. It coexists with very ordinary qualities, and yet many great geniuses are without it. Of all human qualities I consider it the most convenient--not always the highest; yet I would rather have it than many more shining qualities.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Leadership, Mean, Shining

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• The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to distinguish between what is really worthy of his efforts and what is not...

  James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

  Work, Learning, Math

  "Presidential Address British Association for the Advancement of Science". "Nature", Vol. 42, (p. 467), 1890.

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• A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of what is called tact, which has so much to do with acceptability and success in life.

  Charles Simmons

  Character, Common Sense, Feelings

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• We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far more confidence in what God can do for every believing soul. He longs to have you reach after Him by faith. He longs to have you expect great things from Him. He longs to give you understanding in temporal as well as in spiritual matters. He can sharpen the intellect. He can give tact and skill. Put your talents into the work, ask God for wisdom, and it will be given you.

  Ellen G. White

  Spiritual, Believe, Men

  Ellen G. White (1941). “Christ's Object Lessons”

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• Ugliness without tact is horrible.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Horrible, Ugliness

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Claude Mitchell Simpson, William Charvat, Ohio State Center for Textual Studies (1972). “The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: The American notebooks”

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• Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Offense, Sentences

  Gretchen Rubin (2015). “The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.13, HarperCollins

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• In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.

  Robertson Davies

  Brutality

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

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