 God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world. Author: A. Alfred Taubman
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| If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey. Author: A. N. Wilson
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| I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person. Author: Aaliyah
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| If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket. Author: Abe Lemons
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| I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane. Author: Abraham Maslow
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| To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all. Author: Adam Clarke
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| Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody. Author: Adam Rich
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| I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that. Author: Adam Rich
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| Don't get me wrong, some of the mis-informed articles I have read over the last few weeks have been incredibly frustrating, but for my part I fully appreciate the opportunity I have been given and want to grasp it firmly. Author: Adam Rickitt
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| It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination. Author: Adam Weishaupt
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| Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original. Author: Adrian Lyne
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| By Time and Age full many things are taught. Author: Aeschylus
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| I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask. Author: Agnes Smedley
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| An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others. Author: Aiden Wilson Tozer
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| You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on. Author: Aisha Tyler
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| Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues. Author: Ajay Devgan
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| I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck. Author: Al Alvarez
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| I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that. Author: Al Goldstein
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| I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality. Author: Al Jardine
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| The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption. Author: Al Sharpton
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| Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success. Author: Alan Autry
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| Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies. Author: Alan Dean Foster
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| I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters. Author: Alan Dean Foster
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| I've been writing full-time since 1978. Author: Alan Dean Foster
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| The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions. Author: Alan Dershowitz
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| Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word. Author: Alan K. Simpson
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| We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically. Author: Alan Thicke
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| The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. Author: Alan Watts
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| Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance. Author: Albert Claude
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| He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. Author: Albert Einstein
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| A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. Author: Albert Schweitzer
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| Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. Author: Albert Schweitzer
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| All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life. Author: Alberto Giacometti
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| I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confident at the end of the day that we'll know what facts are in this particular case. Author: Alberto Gonzales
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| Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet. Author: Alberto Sordi
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| My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family. Author: Albrecht Durer
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| While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist. Author: Alcee Hastings
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| Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. Author: Aldous Huxley
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| Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting. Author: Aldous Huxley
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| I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment. Author: Aldrich Ames
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| We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life. Author: Alex Campbell
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| We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon. Author: Alex Campbell
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| What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted. Author: Alex Campbell
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| Time is the thing. A show like this pulls all your time away from you. Usually I'll get home from work on a Saturday about 10am (after doing night shooting) and I'll sleep until Saturday afternoon. Saturday night and Sunday I'm usually feeling wiped out and I've not seen Holly all week. It's a pretty full-on life, but what do you do? I love my work and there are sacrifices. Author: Alex O'Loughlin
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| What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. Author: Alexander Graham Bell
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| When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. Author: Alexander Graham Bell
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| Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. Author: Alexander Herzen
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| Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. Author: Alexander Pope
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| If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race. Author: Alexander Smith
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| My overall message for labor members is... that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, but the disruption and the dislocation are painfully concentrated and we can't ignore them. Author: Alexis Herman
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| I just had a full body cleanse. And am eating right and exercising a lot. Author: Alfre Woodard
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| Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. Author: Alfred A. Montapert
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| I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in. Author: Alfred de Vigny
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| I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm. Author: Alfred Hitchcock
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| We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom. Author: Alfred Kastler
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| Without adventure civilization is in full decay. Author: Alfred North Whitehead
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| I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised. Author: Alfredo Stroessner
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| I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life. Author: Ali MacGraw
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| Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem. Author: Alice Hamilton
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| I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself. Author: Alice Hoffman
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| Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. Author: Alice Koller
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| I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. Author: Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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| All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience. Author: Alice Walker
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| One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully. Author: Alison Bechdel
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| The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive. Author: Allen Ginsberg
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| I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball. Author: Allen Iverson
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| French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety. Author: Alma Gluck
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| If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love. Author: Alphonsus Liguori
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| In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best. Author: Althea Gibson
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| So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do. Author: Alton Brown
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| Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth. Author: Ambrose Bierce
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| Had I not made it big, my family would have told me to recheck my decision. Now that I am successful, there is no way. They have to accept it gracefully. Author: Amisha Patel
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| Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real. Author: Amy Grant
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| We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement. Author: Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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| Some moments it feels longer, other moments it feels like it's flown by; you can't believe you've done it all that time... Overall, you have a strong sense for the full spectrum that you've sort of traveled. Author: Andre Agassi
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| Well, you know, I've bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same tournaments year after year and we go back to the same place and many times the seats have been full and that has meant the world to me for sure. Author: Andre Agassi
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| I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do. Author: Andrew Bogut
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| Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. Author: Andrew Carnegie
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| The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. Author: Andrew Carnegie
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| The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. Author: Andrew Carnegie
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| Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial. Author: Andrew Cohen
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| I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness. Author: Andrew Cohen
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| Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character. Author: Andrew Coyle Bradley
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| When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important. Author: Andrew Shue
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| Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope. Author: Andrew von Eschenbach
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| At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery. Author: Andrew Wyeth
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| We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics. Author: Andrzej Wajda
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| I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting. Author: Andy Rooney
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| The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment. Author: Andy Rooney
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| When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore. Author: Ang Lee
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| That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too. Author: Angela Ruggiero
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| I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below. Author: Angus Wilson
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| I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets. Author: Anita Diament
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| I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck. Author: Anjelica Huston
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| We are not yet at the point where our size, our being the drama industry, is sufficient to support full time professional crews, and that is very very important. Author: Ann Macbeth
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| We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs. Author: Ann Macbeth
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| Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness? Author: Anna Freud
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| No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere. Author: Anna Held
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