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• A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not within your reach, keep your ballot in your pocket.

  Malcolm X

  Pockets, Bullets, Ballots

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will never miss. If you are learning your lessons, think only of the lesson. In India boys and girls are taught to do this.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Girl, Boys, Thinking

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• Im very disappointed that we missed our (earnings per share) growth target this quarter due to the confluence of a number of issues that we now understand and are urgently addressing. I accept full responsibility for the shortfall.

  Carly Fiorina

  Responsibility, Numbers, Issues

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• We have been told mankind will be judged on the intent of the heart. No mortal can see into the depth of another. There is only One who can. His is the role of a judge-not ours. If you are prone to criticize or judge, remember, we never see the target a man aims at in life. We see only what he hits.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Heart, Men, Judging

  H. Burke Peterson (1986). “A glimpse of glory”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• God... Please keep my eyes focused on the only target worth hitting - Christlikeness!

  Johnny Hunt

  Christian, Eye, Hitting

  Johnny Hunt (2011). “My Daily Devotional Prayer Book -”, p.200, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What all this tells me is that a large proportion of the people in positions of power across Australia - politicians and media pundits included - just don't consider the beating down of women to be of any consequence. Half the time they won't even acknowledge it, let alone take a stand against it, preferring instead to gaslight women and pretend it's all in their head. Are these the kinds of people we want making decisions for us? The ones who think mockery about women's genitals is bad when it targets no one in particular, but OK when it targets the Prime Minister?

  Clementine Ford

  Women, Thinking, Media

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• Target launch date for Falcon I maiden flight is Halloween(October 31) from our island launch complex in the Kwajalein Atoll. For potential customers out there, I should mention that Kwajalein has some of the worlds best scuba diving and snorkeling! It is literally a tropical paradise.

  Elon Musk

  Halloween, Islands, World

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• The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the "little ice age"...In a time period when the reasons for changes in weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patterns. 'Witches' became target for blame because there was an existing cultural framework that both allowed their persecution and suggested that they could control the weather.

  Emily Oster

  Average, Ice, Weather

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• I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

  Dylan Moran

  Moving, Trying, Beads

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• The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.

  Alva Myrdal

  Civilization, People, Hemisphere

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming blow from the air.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Blow, Air, Fabric

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• Addie, please." More tears dripped down her cheeks. "Don't be so hard." "Oh, please," I muttered...and that was as far as I got. 'You broke my heart' were the words that had risen to my mouth, but I couldn't say them. That was what you said to a boyfriend, a lover, not your best friend. She'd laugh. And I'd had enough of being laughed at. I'd worked hard to get to a place where it didn't happen anymore, where I didn't move through life like a walking target, where it was just me and my paints and brushes and my big empty bed every night. "You weren't a good friend," I said instead.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Moving, Heart, Good Friend

  Jennifer Weiner (2010). “Best Friends Forever: A Novel”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Phoebe tapped the toe of her sneaker against the dock. “There’s only one good use for a man like Heath Champion.” “Here we go again,” Molly muttered. Phoebe’s lip curled. “Target practice.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Men, Practice, Sneakers

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• I got singled out. I don't know why. Why do people always target me? Is it because I'm short and they figure I can't fight back? They're right, I can't, but it's not because I'm vertically challenged.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Fighting, People, Figures

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• The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including the skill of repeating patriotic slogans on timely occasions.

  Noam Chomsky

  Patriotic, Media, Skills

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Deterring Democracy”, p.363, Random House

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• The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, Military, Insecure

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.259, Princeton University Press

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• We have no target for the number of medals we hope to win in 2012 - yet. But we want every kid in the country to have the chance to have the best opportunities.

  Tessa Jowell

  Country, Kids, Winning

  "Sports bodies streamlined to prepare future medal winners" by Andrew Culf, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2005.

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• I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.

  Mo Rocca

  Thinking, Voting, Groups

  "Mo Rocca measures the 2012 race in laughs" by Alexander Trowbridge, www.politico.com. September 12, 2012.

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• I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. When you read some books they are fantastic, the writer touches something in you that you know you would not have brought out of yourself. He makes you discover something interesting in your life. If you are living like an animal, what is the point of living? What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

  Arsene Wenger

  Art, Believe, Book

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• I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target - and future.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Home, Who I Am, Long

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• I'm the number 1 target of the White House. They can't get Osama bin Laden; they're going to get me.

  Jean Carnahan

  White, Numbers, House

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• As Americans, we have a long history with firearms. We also have a government built on compromise, so here is the compromise I propose: Ban assault rifles and handguns for everyone except police and military personnel. These weapons are made to kill humans and should be strictly limited. At the same time, allow responsible citizens to own rifles and shotguns. Rifles are for hunting big-game animals, shotguns are for hunting birds; non-automatic versions of these weapons should be available for those with an interest in hunting or target shooting.

  Nick Symmonds

  Military, Hunting, Animal

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• Targeting investment returns leads investors to focus on potential upside rather on downside risk ... rather than targeting a desired rate of return, even an eminently reasonable one, investors should target risk.

  Seth Klarman

  Focus, Risk, Return

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• Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.

  Jared Spool

  Design, Currents, Happens

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• Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.

  David Hackworth

  Military, Moving, Men

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