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• Our target is to get into the play-offs. If not, we want automatic promotion.

  Dennis Oli

  Football, Play, Want

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• We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are - whether it's here in the United States or, as Hillary (Clinton) mentioned, more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda.

  Barack Obama

  Gay, Uganda, Law

  "In His Own Words: President Obama's Nuanced View on Gay Marriage". Remarks by the President Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC, www.foxnews.com. February 4, 2010.

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• Climate change is the greatest threat to our common future. We have a very short period of time to tackle the problem before it becomes irreversible and out of control. A lot of progress has been made, but we must now go further, faster and turn targets into real change

  Chris Huhne

  Real, Progress, Climate

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• There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target of a violent crime with lethal force. This is not a sense of power, it is now the experience of escaping from a sense of powerlessness.

  John Longenecker

  Gun, Escaping, Feelings

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• History has shown that the greater power of the gun is its power to deter. Bear in mind that criminals, by definition, target only victims they believe they can overpower. When the intended victim draws a gun, the predator realizes that their erstwhile target has the ability to kill them instantly. This tends to modify their behavior immediately without a shot being fired.

  Massad Ayoob

  Believe, Gun, Mind

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• Already a couple of the faithful have sent in checks for a foundation memorial to the innocents who perished at the hands of the ninja at Waco. ... I have been criticized by referring to our federal masked men as "ninja" ... Let us reflect upon the fact that a man who covers his face shows reason to be ashamed of what he is doing. A man who takes it upon himself to shed blood while concealing his identity is a revolting perversion of the warrior ethic. It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change that view.

  Jeff Cooper

  Couple, Warrior, Gun

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• The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Hate, Past

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• In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.

  Confucius

  Archer, Character, Men

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.28, Delphi Classics

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• When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Inspirational, Moving, Perfection

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• If a teacher misses a target, they change the teacher, If a minister misses a target, they change the target

  Damian Green

  Teacher, Missing, Politics

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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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• Target SME's and you target women because that is where they access the business sector.

  Linah Mohohlo

  Economics, Access

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• We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc. The missing area of understanding seems to be the actual physical mechanism. Lets target an explanation at an audience that has taken 1 year each of undergraduate physics and chemistry, plus calculus. Once we have something that is convincing at this level, we can work on how to communicate this to the interested public (i.e. those that hang out in the climate blogosphere). Willis Eschenbach’s help is needed in translating this for the WUWT crowd.

  Judith Curry

  Taken, Years, Games

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• We have a lot of great creators in Square Enix, but for larger-scale development we will be doing more distributed and outsourced development to reach our targets on time.

  Motomu Toriyama

  Squares, Development, Scales

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• Network selectively. Nothing says "business newbie" like shotgun networking. "You never know when someone might say yes" is marketing for dummies. Take the time to build a profile of your ideal customers, and target your networking activities to reach them. Speak to those who are already predisposed to want what you offer. Almost any profile is better than "anyone with a pulse."

  Steve Pavlina

  Business, Marketing, Pulse

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• Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation….wrong priorities and unattainable targets

  J. R. D. Tata

  Priorities, Unattainable, Trouble

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