#tact

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God. ↗

— Silvia Cartwright

#awful #face #god #heroes #humanity

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#censors #condemned #erase #furiously #government

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#competing #contact #cultural #elsewhere #faster

If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying. ↗

— Jaroslav Seifert

#maneuver #may #ordinary #ordinary person #person

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen. ↗

— Hugh Hopper

#assume #contact #course #gives #happen

I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them. ↗

— Dian Fossey

#contact #could #cross #especially #get

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#incentives #measures #strategy #tactics

The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site. ↗

— Bo Gritz

#contact #crossing #effort #final #guards

Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. ↗

— Oliver Herford

#lie #others #tact #them #would

I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#always #community #contact #direct #eye