“ Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ Cultivate tact for it is the mark of culture... the lubricant of human relations, softening contacts and minimizing friction. ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
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“ I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks. ”
- Bernardo Bertolucci- Copy
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“ If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both. ”
- Ursula K. Le Guin- Copy
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“ If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds. ”
- Marcus Valerius Martial- Copy
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“ Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace? ”
- Edward Young- Copy
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“ Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. ”
- Oliver Herford- Copy
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“ Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture. ”
- Charlotte Bunch- Copy
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“ I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared. ”
- Hedy Lamarr- Copy
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“ I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding. ”
- Gustav Mahler- Copy
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“ The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture. ”
- John McLaughlin- Copy
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“ My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures. ”
- Jet Li- Copy
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“ You like it when someone becomes a pop-culture icon and deserves it. ”
- Jonathan Klein- Copy
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“ Grace tried is better than grace, and it is more than grace, it is glory in its infancy. ”
- Samuel Rutherford- Copy
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“ The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, — luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, — are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
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“ The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently. ”
- Eugene Delacroix- Copy
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“ A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age. ”
- Cicero- Copy
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“ The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
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“ Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself. ”
- Maxwell Maltz- Copy
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“ Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon. ”
- Alice James- Copy
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