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• The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and during the endgame they turn out, as a rule, to be weak.

  Boris Spassky

  Men, Chess, Pawns

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• China has adopted and is implementing its national climate change program. This includes mandatory national targets for reducing energy intensity and discharge of major pollutants and increasing forest coverage and the share of renewable energy for the period of 2005 through 2010.

  Hu Jintao

  Energy, Climate, Forests

  Hu Jintao’s Speech on Climate Change, www.nytimes.com. September 22, 2009.

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• September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.

  Tony Blair

  New York, America, Challenges

  "Attacks Remembered: In quotes". news.bbc.co.uk. September 11, 2002.

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• In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.

  Stephen Hadley

  Military, Command And Control, Elements

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• Disinformation is a large part of its[CIA] covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies.

  Ralph McGehee

  Lying, Responsibility, People

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• When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.

  Jerry Doyle

  Dad, Pride, Community

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 25, 2002.

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• I have been a vulnerable target for those who want money.

  Michael Jackson

  Want, Vulnerable, Has Beens

  "Fresh accusations of Jackson abuse". www.cnn.com. September 7, 2004.

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• I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

  Lee Child

  Government, Common Sense, Censorship

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• You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

  Brian Eno

  Eye, Arrows, Bulls

  "On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno". Interview with Paul Morley, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2010.

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• The U.S. has already suffered a devastating attack on September 11, 2001, and may again become a target.

  Linda Chavez

  September 11, May, September

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• When you get money you're always a target because there's always somebody who needs money out there.

  Lloyd Banks

  Needs, Get Money, Need Money

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• Mike's (Tyson) punch is like an atomic bomb in that it is relative to nature. Both have no value unless you have a means of conveying it to the target. He is boxing-smart.

  Cus D'Amato

  Smart, Mean, Boxing

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• Gender equality and empowerment of women is key to the success of the Millennium Development Goals. Not only as a specific target, but for the goals in general. Women bear a heavier burden of the world's poverty than men, because of the discrimination they face in education, health care, employment and control of assets.

  Johanna Sigurðardottir

  Men, Keys, Goal

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• We are the best team of the tournament and deserved the title but luck did not favour us. I think the future of this team is good. If we play more friendly matches and target the SAFF Championship, I think this team can deliver that title.

  Mamunul Islam

  Team, Thinking, Play

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• In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  Punishment, Church, Action

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• Well, Mitt Romney is a very attractive comedic target. He’s irresistible to me. I mean seriously, I want to pay less attention to him.

  Rob Delaney

  Mean, Want, Pay

  "Rob Delaney Talks New Online Special, Clint Eastwood’s RNC Speech & Being Mitt Romney’s Nemesis". Interview with Katla McGlynn, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected.

  Alexander Downer

  Strong, Thinking, Government

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To make us a terrorist target in a region that is full of terrorism is dumb and unforgiveable.

  John Hewson

  Stupid, Dumb, Terrorism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Did we miss out on a lot of targets? No. Was it disappointing? No.

  David Moyes

  Football, League, Missing

  "David Moyes defends brinkmanship but admits Leighton Baines deal is dead" by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2013.

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• You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

  Alan Rudolph

  Civilization, Numbers, Individuality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every baby born
  unloved, unwanted, is a bill that will come
  due in twenty years with interest, an anger
  that must find a target, a pain that will
  beget pain. A decade downstream a child
  screams, a woman falls, a synagogue is torched,
  a firing squad is summoned, a button
  is pushed and the world burns.

  Marge Piercy

  Baby, Children, Pain

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• To do that they, the NSA specifically, targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyses them and it measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest, most efficient, and most valuable way to achieve these ends. So while they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign government or someone they suspect of terrorism, they're collecting you're communications to do so.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Government, Nsa

  "• Edward Snowden Interview Transcript FULL TEXT: Read the Guardian's Entire Interview With the Man Who Leaked PRISM" by Gabriel Rodriguez, mic.com. June 10, 2013.

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• I should have done target practice.

  Valerie Solanas

  Should Have, Practice, Done

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• WASHINGTON - Ever since President Obama ordered American warplanes to begin bombing terrorist targets in Iraq and Syria last year, members of Congress have insisted on having a say in the matter. The president, they declared, could not, or at least should not, take the country back to war without the input of the nation's elected representatives.

  Peter Baker

  Country, War, Years

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• In order for any smartphone manufacturer to decrypt the data on your phone, it has to hold onto a secret that lets it get that access. And that secret or that database of secrets becomes an extremely valuable and useful target for intelligence agencies.

  Matt Blaze

  Agency, Phones, Order

  Source: www.politico.com

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