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• Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. Man can serve his age or rebel against it, but the target of his cooperation or rebellion comes to him from outside.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Men, Age, Rebel

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 14: "The Old Mimoid", p. 198, 1970.

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• The question's whether or not there's an American interest in the Civil War [in Syria]. The question is whether or not a military strike on [Bashar] Assad will cause him to be encouraged to use more weapons or discouraged. It's easy enough to say - and the president [Barack Obama] says though this will teach him a lesson - but his military strike is intended not to target him individually, not to bring about regime change.

  Rand Paul

  Military, War, President

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• If you try to target a movie at kids, you end up with something that makes parents take a nap.

  Lee Unkrich

  Kids, Naps, Parent

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

  Gordon Taylor

  Sports, Country, Gambling

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• There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.

  Andrew Davidson

  Loss, Air, Forever

  Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.48, Canongate Books

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• Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.

  Nancy Lublin

  Effort, Target Market, Looks

  "Q&A: Gen Y's Youngest Demand Authenticity, Via Text". Interview with Sarah Mahoney, www.mediapost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.

  Bre Pettis

  Machines, Jewelry

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• Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams!

  Grant Cardone

  Dream, Giving Up, Hook

  Grant Cardone (2011). “The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons

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• The drones are a terrorist weapon, they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Drones, Weapons

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• Set goals for yourself and put actionable steps in place to ensure that you achieve them. Whether you aim to get a promotion at work or set up your very own business, these ideas will only remain dreams until you write plan out how you are going to reach them by writing down realistic steps towards hitting your targets.

  Kelly Hoppen

  Dream, Writing, Ideas

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• To make the peaks higher.
  [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]

  Wickliffe Rose

  Reason, Funding, Higher

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• The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a success. I'm not sure that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did.

  Milton Friedman

  Use, Today, Not Sure

  Financial Times (UK), June 7, 2003.

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• What is the only provocation that could bring about the use of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the priority target for nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the only established defense against nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. How do we prevent the use of nuclear weapons? By threatening to use nuclear weapons. And we can't get rid of nuclear weapons, because of nuclear weapons. The intransigence, it seems, is a function of the weapons themselves.

  Martin Amis

  Priorities, Defense, Nuclear

  "Einstein's Monsters". Book by Martin Amis, 1987.

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• The greatest missile in the world is useless ... unless it's targeted. A torpedo is adrift unless it has someplace to go. An arrow is pointless unless it hits something. So it's important for kids--for everyone, even if you fail at first--to target something and head in that direction. With all your might.

  Tim Allen

  Kids, Arrows, Important

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• On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal.

  Derek Jarman

  Sight, Secret, World

  "At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament". Book by Derek Jarman, 1992.

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• The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.

  Alan Lightman

  Interesting, Quantity

  Alan Lightman (2012). “Mr g: A Novel About the Creation”, p.25, Vintage

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• Centralization of society's vital services in giant computer centers, reservoirs, nuclear power plants, air- traffic control centers, 100-story skyscrapers, and government compounds increases its vulnerability. ... choosing his targets, today's saboteur could pollute a city's water supply, dynamite power transmission towers, cripple an airport control center, destroy a corporate or government computer center.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Airports, Government, Cities

  "Computer crime" by Gerald McKnight, (p. 203), 1973.

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• I needed targets, different things to go for on a daily basis—a distance on the treadmill or a weight goal. Without them, I wasn't celebrating myself enough, and I got really good at beating myself up.

  Ali Vincent

  Distance, Goal, Different

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• Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Successful, Satire, Holes

  Wyndham Lewis (1979). “Wyndham Lewis: collected poems and plays”

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• Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.

  Akio Morita

  Jobs, Giving, Important

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 168), 1986.

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• My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.

  Akio Morita

  Creativity, United States, Example

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 164), 1986.

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• This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America. Our opponent is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country. Americans need to know this.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Men, America

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• Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.

  Bruce Schneier

  People, Machines

  "Semantic Attacks: The Third Wave of Network Attacks". Cryptogram Newsletter, www.schneier.com. October 15, 2000.

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• I was shocked when they told me congratulations, you won, that's the good news. Then the bad news is that you have six battles next week. That was a bit of a shocker. I was exhausted. And I had Chopped shooting that same week. I didn't have a sous chef lined up; I thought that was bad karma to try to think ahead. So I scrambled. I scrambled the jets, took off and we bombed our target. I think it's gone well.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Karma, Congratulations, Thinking

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• History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been laid upon the label (its iconography, its target-group of customers) and upon the interesting problems of manufacturing bottle-glass. The contents, on the other hand, are tasted in a knowing, perfunctory way and then spat out again. Only amateurs swallow them.

  Neal Ascherson

  Glasses, Hands, Years

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