Tactics Quotes - Page 11

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

  John Steinbeck

  Military, Fighting, Finding Yourself

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• UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower poor women ... will have more impact on curbing population growth that the current system of "encouraging" family planning practices through intimidation tactics.. Family planning should be left to the family.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Country, Believe, Fall

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• Alright, macho babe boy, I'm not some little ditz to bat my eyelashes at the buff stud in black leather. Don't try your he-man tactics with me. I'll have you know, in my office, I'm known as the ball-breaker. (Amanda)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Men, Eyelashes

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Night Pleasures”, p.24, Macmillan

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• An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be well trained in the fighting styles of the Kyoto masters and the modern tactics and weaponry of Europe.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Fighting, Thorough Knowledge, Europe

  Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.45, Chronicle Books

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• Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Art, Young Friends, Joy

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• A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very old or very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads.

  Louis L'Amour

  Sleep, Men, Gentleman

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.215, Bantam

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• Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Agreement, Mass, Chosen

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• The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Military, Fighting, Agriculture

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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• Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

  Thomas Szasz

  Children, Adults, Principles

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

  Richard Stallman

  Friendly, Terror, Neighbour

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• Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.

  George Soros

  Fake People, Smear Campaigns, Accusation

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• Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

  Sam Shepard

  Scare Tactics, Democracy, May

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• As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.

  John Berger

  Government, People, Way

  "We must speak out". www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2006.

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• You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A sample. It's almost always a delaying tactic.

  Dick Pound

  Hands, Results, Fingers

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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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• As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today's war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world.

  William Eldridge Odom

  War, Long, Enemy

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• I had a dual goal in my running that was to win and to achieve excellence, so I was never happy with a slow tactical time. If the race were slow I would get in front and pull it up again. I couldn't stand a slow race. A lot of people seem to get screwed up on tactics. There is only one tactic in a race and that is to always be in a position where you can win it.

  Herb Elliott

  Motivational, Running, Winning

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• The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism". Terrorism is a tactic. You can't have a war against a tactic. It's deliberately vague and non-definable in order to justify and permit perpetual war anywhere and under any circumstance.

  Ron Paul

  Honesty, War, Order

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• Most people never realize that 80% of the work is done before you step in a room. That's why they spend their entire lives grasping for magical tactics instead of changing their entire mindset.

  Ramit Sethi

  Business, People, Done

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• If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.

  John Cornyn

  Block, Voting, President

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• The Possibilities in racing tactics are almost unlimited, as in a game of chess, for every move there is a counter, for every attack there is a defense.... The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage. Above all, he must have a will to win.

  Franz Stampfl

  Moving, Winning, Games

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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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• I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying.

  Pat Paulsen

  Lying, Order, Negative

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• I am personally not advocating violence. I am simply saying that it is a morally acceptable tactic and it may be useful in the struggle for animal liberation. I don't know.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Struggle, Animal, May

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• Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "Emergency". It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse.

  Herbert Hoover

  Horse, Political, Invasion

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”

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