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• People will help each other because there is a sense of camaraderie that springs up, which is a survival tactic. You help them because you know you might need their help later. And that is incredibly reassuring.

  Amanda Ripley

  Spring, People, Survival

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Women who talk about football tactics, it's beautiful. I find that fantastic. And you know what a 4-3-3 is, right?

  Laurent Blanc

  Beautiful, Football, Fantastic

  "French football's best quotes in 2013: Zlatan, Beckham, Barton and Ribéry" by Tom Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2013.

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• If it's a principle, it's a winner. If it's a tactic, it's a loser.

  Zig Ziglar

  Principles, Loser, Winner

  Zig Ziglar, Krish Dhanam, Bryan Flanagan, Jim Savage (2004). “Top Performance: How to Develop Excellence in Yourself and Others”, p.70, Revell

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• Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

  Noam Chomsky

  Goal, Inspire, Trying

  "Chomsky On The Prospect of Kurdish Independence". Interview with Namo Abdulla, chomsky.info. February 15, 2011.

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• I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of debates by seeking other dichotomies more appropriate than, or simply different from, the conventional divisions. All dichotomies are simplifications, but the rendition of a conflict along differing axes of several orthogonal dichotomies might provide an amplitude of proper intellectual space without forcing us to forgo our most comforting tool of thought.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Axes, Space, People

  "Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, p. 8, 1987.

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• David Cameron says he wants to keep Britain in the EU, but his tactics are so divisive that, if he gets what he wants it will be at the price of huge ill-will in Europe; or if he doesn't, it will be at the price of increased anti-EU sentiment in his own party and in British society.

  John Bruton

  Party, Ill Will, Europe

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• If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Ideas, People

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

  Iain Banks

  Usual, Sides, Modern

  "Excession (The Culture, Book 5)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 3 "Uninvited Guests", Section I, p. 66), 1996.

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• Be as creative in your tactics as you are in your writing. Find what gets your engine going, no matter how peculiar it may seem to others.

  Ralph Keyes

  Writing, Creative, Peculiar

  Source: writerunboxed.com

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• I think most teen comedies are probably played in a way that aren't geared towards people that are wanting to be entertained but also [see] something that has a lot of heart to it. The things we do in the movie - it has a lot of heart, and also it's really smart. The people and the characters that we are, we're really intelligent people that are using our tactics to get back at a guy. The moral of being who you are, and trusting yourself, finding your inner strength - I think that's something that most teen movies don't really dial into.

  Brittany Snow

  Smart, Heart, Character

  Interview with Shawn Adler, www.ign.com. July 25, 2006.

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• With conglomerates selling companies to liquidators, who close down plants and move to non-union areas, it's about time progressive union leaders step in to stop such job-losing tactics... ESOP should become a part of future bargaining packages!

  Tom Colicchio

  Wisdom, Jobs, Moving

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• America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends.

  John Olver

  War, Moral High Ground, America

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• The political tactics of division and slander are not our values. They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.

  John McCain

  Country, Party, Practice

  "Sen. John McCain Attacks Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Republican Establishment as Harming GOP Ideals". transcripts.cnn.com. February 28, 2000.

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• The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.

  Charles Stross

  Ideas, Yellow, People

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.164, Penguin

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• All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.

  Lu Xun

  Book, Ideas, Existential

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• Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.

  Samantha Power

  Summer, War, Israel

  Interview with in Molly Lanzarotta, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, March 14, 2007.

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• Today, we will hear from federal law enforcement agencies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, who will discuss the problem of ELF and ALF and law enforcement's reaction to their dangerous and destructive tactics. It is these tactics, particularly the widespread use of arson, which makes ELF and ALF the #1 domestic terror concern over the likes of white supremacists, militias, and anti-abortion groups.

  James Inhofe

  Law, White, Agency

  Senate Hearing 109-947 before Committee on Environment and Public Works, May 18, 2005.

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• This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union - and we know how successful that was.

  Virginia Foxx

  Successful, Unions, Bills

  "House Passes Sweeping Food Safety Bill". Kathryn A. Wolfe, Congressional Quarterly, July 30, 2009.

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• The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics.

  John Foster Dulles

  Goal, World, Sun

  Comment to his brother Allen. Quoted in Peter Grose Gentleman Spy (1994).

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• From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams... only one thing and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army. Until he has developed that mass power base, he confronts no major issues.... Until he has those means and power instruments, his tactics are very different from power tactics. Therefore, every move revolves around one central point: how many recruits will this bring into the organization, whether by means of local organizations, churches, service groups, labor Unions, corner gangs, or as individuals.

  Saul Alinsky

  Dream, Moving, Mean

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• Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Horse, Men

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

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• In tactics, no information is better than too much....because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking.

  Giovanni Guidetti

  Volleyball, Reading, Player

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• I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Beautiful, Fashion, Memorable

  "Farewell to Oscar de la Renta Hollywood's best loved fashion designer" by Amber Graafland, www.mirror.co.uk. October 21, 2014.

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• There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Liberty, Purpose

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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• . . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.

  Patrick Henry

  Long, Liberty, Sound

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