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"I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective."
"Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself."
"Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve."
"Anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we're always "against" things-we're never "for" anything. Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
"We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)"
"We desire peace. But peace is a goal, not a policy. Lasting peace is what we hope for at the end of our journey. It doesn't describe the steps we must take nor the paths we should follow to reach that goal."
"I keep telling my kids - whether you achieve your goal or not is not the most important thing. Putting yourself in position to achieve those goals is what's important."
"Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over."
"I've made it my goal to revolutionise pop music."
"There's so many women that need to be inspired, encouraged to go after their dreams, their goals, their aspirations. Because we all have that champion within us. It really is about your mindset and having the tools that you need, surrounding yourself with the right people, people who have been able to achieve some of the things that you want to achieve."
"The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory."
"In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery."
"The path is the goal."
"Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action."
"With definite goals you release your own power, and things start happening."
"You gotta have goals!"
"There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim."
"I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement"
"My goal is not to shove information into your head. It's to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don't have to tell a child to explore the backyard."
"I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant."
