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• Improving the quality of our lives should be the ultimate target of public policies. But public policies can only deliver best fruit if they are based on reliable tools to measure the improvement they seek to produce in our lives.

  Jose Angel Gurria

  Quality, Tools, Fruit

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• Stretch targets energize. We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when we don't quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done.

  Jack Welch

  Wind, Done, Impossible

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• The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

  Saul Alinsky

  Tactics, Radical, Community Organizing

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• Wal-Mart has become the whipping boy for political demagogues, unions and anti-traders. I suggest that they have the wrong target.... Wal-Mart exists and prospers because tens of millions of Americans find Wal-Mart to be a suitable source of goods and services..... unions and anti-traders should direct their outrage and condemnation at the tens of millions of Americans who shop at Wal-Mart and keep it in business.

  Walter E. Williams

  Boys, Political, Unions

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• Reverend Ted Haggard's followers still think he's not gay. I'm not kidding. In their world, there are no gay people. There are just straight people who are sinning. They don't want to do it, but the Devil makes them! He targets people like Reverend Ted. That's how it happened. The Devil got hold of Reverend Ted, and Ted said, 'Get thee behind me, Satan! And put it in, gently'.

  Bill Maher

  Gay, Thinking, People

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• Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. ... Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target.

  Denis Waitley

  Moving, Mean, Persistence

  Denis Waitley (1985). “The Double Win”

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• The problem is that so often we forget that we are in warfare and that Satan's target is our mind.

  Kay Arthur

  Mind, Warfare, Satan

  Kay Arthur (2002). “Speak to My Heart, God: For Every Need, for Every Moment...”, p.21, Harvest House Publishers

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• My own personal tastes don't really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that, I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I'm working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life. So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Crazy, Long

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• If Canada, one of the richest nations in the world, can't meet Kyoto targets, why should China or India give any considerations for meeting the targets?

  David Suzuki

  Kyoto, Giving, India

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• Even meeting Kyoto targets barely makes a dent in what we have to achieve.

  David Suzuki

  Kyoto, Achieve, Meetings

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• The more money you get, the bigger target you become. That's true. It's sad but it's true that you have to be aware of every person that comes to you with the next greatest deal. You just have to look at every single person with a fine lens. That's the way my life is going to be from here on out.

  Reggie Bush

  Lenses, Looks, Way

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• You've got to watch your back. We are targets as basketball payers.

  Paul Pierce

  Basketball, Watches

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• We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.

  George Osborne

  Pay, Tax Evasion, Share

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• I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.

  Liza Minnelli

  Moving, Taught, Walks

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• Sometimes you must leave everything and refresh yourself in the silence of a misty lake! Every such refreshment will give you an opportunity to make a long jump on the way to your target!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Opportunity, Lakes, Long

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• When your target is too far away from you, continue walking singing the song you like.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Song, Singing, Far Away

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• Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

  Dorothy Parker

  Dirty, Hands, Missing

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• Plant the seed, set the target, live your life.

  Gretchen Bleiler

  Live Your Life, Plant, Seeds

  Twitter post from Mar 19, 2014

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• When it comes to sports, women are big targets for abuse because the resentment is two-fold. Some resent us for our confidence and beliefs. But there also is an added resentment because we are supposedly infiltrating a space that has been decidedly male.

  Jemele Hill

  Sports, Two, Space

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• I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Teacher

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• Lying is a deliberate choice to mislead a target without giving any notification of the intent to do so. There are two major forms of lying: concealment, leaving out true information; and falsification, or presenting false information as if it were true.

  Paul Ekman

  Lying, Two, Giving

  Paul Ekman (2009). “Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage (Revised Edition)”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The injustice is that women continue to be the main target of violence both during wartime and peacetime and yet there is still a lack of a public outrage.

  Zainab Salbi

  Violence, Injustice, Wartime

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The America of Obama's dreams is not the one of self-reliance and entrepreneurship to which he paid phony lip service at the beginning of his speech. It is an America in which the government, rather than the private sector, creates wealth and leads ignorant, helpless people by the nose from cradle to grave, from preschool to the academy, with the caveat that if they succeed too much, they will make themselves enemies of the state and targets for punitive action. Obama's new American dreams is an American nightmare.

  David Limbaugh

  Dream, America, Government

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• Even when black youth gangs target white strangers on the streets and spew out racial hatred as they batter them and rob them, mayors, police chiefs and the media tiptoe around their racism and many in the media either don't cover these stories or leave out the race and racism involved.

  Thomas Sowell

  Race, Media, Black Youth

  "Social Degeneration: Part III" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 16, 2011.

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• The fact is, I see no compelling reason why we should not unilaterally get rid of our nuclear weapons. To maintain them is costly and adds nothing to our security. I can think of no circumstances under which it would be wise for the United States to use nuclear weapons, even in retaliation for their prior use against us. What, for example, would our targets be? It is impossible to conceive of a target that could be hit without large-scale destruction of many innocent people?

  Paul Nitze

  Wise, Thinking, Compelling Reason

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