But what of those people who have outlasted their quota of threescore years and ten only to be kept in a state of half-life by the skills of medicine?

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This year the quota was filled in half that time, because there are nearly twice the number of people fishing the same waters.

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Sales people overpromise and under deliver, all in the name of making their quota for the month.

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For the conservative side, Justice Antonon Scalia said that he thought the Michigan system amounted to a quota, and questioned whether it furthered racial harmony if it upset many people who fell foul of its provisions.

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Lebanon, albeit under a sectarian quota system, has converted people's street power into parliamentary elections that have drastically reduced the influence of Syria, whose army has withdrawn and whose own regime is under pressure to reform or go.

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