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"I was blessed with speed and a good punch. Everybody thinks I'm the hardest puncher ever. But I just think I was really fast, and my punches got to the target faster. That's what made my knockouts always seem spectacular."
"It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger."
"You can’t hit a target if you don’t know what it is."
"Haiti, which has been the main target of US intervention throughout the 20th century, is the poorest. And Guatemala, which is maybe the third major target of US intervention, probably ranks third poorest."
"I've always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life."
"When you shoot a bow and arrow, you aim at the clouds, not because you expect to hit them, but so that you may reach the distant target on the ground."
"A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up."
"The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood."
"A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target."
"I smirk as Peter misses again. I can't help myself. "Hey, Peter," I say, " Remember what a target is?"
"If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third."
"The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution."
"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."
"Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms race with a reckless proliferation of the most destructive power ever unleashed, tailored for delivery by a vast array of vehicles to a stupefying array of targets."
"If a teacher misses a target, they change the teacher, If a minister misses a target, they change the target"
"You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it."
"Targets don't fight crime."
"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."
"Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If you're not used to them, they can cause soreness a day or two later, but it's a 'cool' soreness. A badge of honor."
"The drones are a terrorist weapon, they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people."
