#tact

The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#colonies #conquest #contact #dutch #free

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. ↗

— Anais Nin

#contact #each #human #human being #precious

The skillful tactician may be likened to the shuai-jan. Now the shuai-jan is a snake that is found in the Ch'ang mountains. Strike at its head, and you will be attacked by its tail; strike at its tail, and you will be attacked by its head; strike at its middle, and you will be attacked by head and tail both. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#warfare #art

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't. ↗

— Malcolm X

#tactics #business

As for human contact, I'd lost all appetite for it. Mankind has, as you may have noticed, become very inventive about devising new ways for people to avoid talking to each other and I'd been taking full advantage of the most recent ones. I would always send a text message rather than speak to someone on the phone. Rather than meeting with any of my friends, I would post cheerful, ironically worded status updates on Facebook, to show them all what a busy life I was leading. And presumably people had been enjoying them, because I'd got more than seventy friends on Facebook now, most of them complete strangers. But actual, face-to-face, let's-meet-for-a-coffee-and-catch-up sort of contact? I seemed to have forgotten what that was all about. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#human-contact #business

It’s my birthday, who could be calling me? Probably my clone, wondering why he hasn’t been born yet. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#birthday #born #clone #communicate #communication

Deplorable practices adopted during the last century were repeatedly declared necessary if regrettable in order to win the war. Oddly enough, we've yet to win. You'd think somebody would have asked before this why the regrettable but necessary measures haven't actually produced the promised results. ↗

— Jack Campbell

#tactics #war #courage

The best defense is a confusing offense. ↗

— Kimberly Pauley

#relationships #tactics #humor

The car bomb is the poor man’s air force. ↗

— Mike Davis

#guerilla #resistance #tactics #terrorism #freedom

If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#tact #humor