This is the system that turns placid 10-year-olds into restless, exuberant, emotionally intense teenagers, desperate to attain every goal, fulfill every desire and experience every sensation.

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Organisers acknowledge more funding will be needed to attain the final goal of 5, 000 stations.

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Step-by-step, day-by-day, you can get closer to your goal until you attain it.

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If the United States adopts these policies, it will not only attain Romney's 6% unemployment goal, it will once again be the economic beacon of the world.

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Believing that a goal is within reach motivates us to act in a way that will help us attain it.

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