#tact

I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#did #had #here #i #job

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#enjoy #football #get #hurt #like

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples. ↗

— Hu Shih

#brought #changes #china #chinese #chinese people

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood. ↗

— Hu Shih

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The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever. ↗

— Joel Silver

#business #core #descending #ever #intact

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

#best #fatal #first #mental #tact

Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#events #few #few men #history #how

Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with. ↗

— Peter Singer

#choices #contact #could #depends #get

One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#creation #force #important #most #regime

And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we want to backslide into an era that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear weapon for every tactical mission? ↗

— John Spratt

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