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It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
– Barry Mann
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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.
– Adam Weishaupt
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
– Vaclav Havel
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It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.
– Frank B. Kellogg
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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
– Harriet Martineau
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It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty.
– Serge Haroche
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It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.
– Paul Watzlawick
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
– F. H. Bradley
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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
– Karl Marx
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It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.
– John Shelby Spong
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Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.
– Shimon Peres
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In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
– Taylor Swift
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
– Wallace Stevens
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In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
– John Boyd Orr
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In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.
– Ivan Turgenev
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In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.
– Minnie Driver
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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
– Alan Watts
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In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
– Carol P. Christ
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In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
– Michael Pollan
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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
– Alexander Smith
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If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
– Satish Kumar
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If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
– Ziggy Marley
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If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
– Beatrice Webb
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
– Honore de Balzac
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
– Randy Travis
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I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.
– Anthony Weiner
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I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.
– Maria Sharapova
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I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work.
– Rick Derringer
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I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
– Zac Efron
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I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.
– Hugh Hefner
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I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet.
– Michael Scheuer
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I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.
– Tom Shadyac
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I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.
– Shelby Foote
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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
– Isabel Allende
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
– Baruch Spinoza
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
– E. B. White
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I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.
– James McAvoy
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I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.
– Thurston Moore
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I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.
– Ariel Sharon
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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
– Robert Browning
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I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.
– Michelle Bachelet
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I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.
– Ella R. Bloor
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
– Lady Gaga
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I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.
– Eric Stoltz
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I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.
– Clyde Tombaugh
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I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.
– Howard Nemerov
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I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.
– Christopher Shays
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I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.
– Talib Kweli
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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
– Stephen Hawking
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I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.
– Billy Corgan
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I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
– Maya Lin
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I prefer to sing in the shower vs. the car. The shower is just steam, you know, its just you, and nature, and no clothing. You know, there's nothing separating you. It's just you, and the voice - you, and the water.
– Jacob Lusk
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I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.
– Colin Farrell
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I love nature and enjoy learning new skills.
– Leona Lewis
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I like my home and I like the nature.
– Billy Corgan
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I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.
– Valerie Jarrett
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I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.
– Patty Duke
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I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
– Armistead Maupin
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I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.
– Hugh Jackman
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.
– Thor Heyerdahl
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
– Samuel Johnson
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I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man.
– Patti Stanger
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I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.
– Mariel Hemingway
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I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.
– Bjork
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I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
– Vincent van Gogh
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I don't stop. It's my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do 'Evita.' I want to do 'Sweeney Todd' with Chris Colfer. We want to do 'Wicked.' I'll be Elphaba and he wants to play 'Guy-linda.' I want to do movies, make music. 'Glee' is only the beginning.
– Lea Michele
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
– Pat Buckley
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I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.
– Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
– Robert Fulghum
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
– A. R. Ammons
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I am deeply concerned that, without peace and a two-state solution, the Jewish and democratic nature of Israel is in danger. That's why I have opposed Israel's settlement policy since 1973, and that's why I have favored a two-state solution since 1967.
– Alan Dershowitz
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I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida.
– Jake Owen
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I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
– Bob Dylan
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I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
– James Dean
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Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
– John Ralston Saul
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Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
– Edward Thorndike
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How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns.
– Tammy Bruce
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Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.
– Pope Shenouda III
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
– Aristotle
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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
– Plato
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
– Samuel Johnson
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Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
– Joseph Butler
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Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
– Dennis Prager
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Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.
– Paul Farmer
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Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.
– Thomas Frank
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God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
– James Clavell
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God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
– Marcus Garvey
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Generally, what people tend to underestimate is the cyborg nature of Groupon. We are a company that has the DNA of being both a technology company and a heavily operational company.
– Andrew Mason
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For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.
– Paul Davies
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For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
– Liam Neeson
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Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.
– Mehmet Oz
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Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
– Phyllis Schlafly
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Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
– Elizabeth I
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Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
– William Law
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
– Napolean Hill
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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
– May Sarton
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Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.
– William Ames
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Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product it's an understanding of human nature.
– Ai Weiwei
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