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"All happy families resemble one another;every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.." -Leo Tolstoy-
"If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.".-Quentin Crisp-
"We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.".-Alexander Pope-
"The world is full of fools and faint hearts;and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor.".-Benjamin Franklin
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"Fools are without number.".-Desiderius Erasmus-
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.".-Herbert Spencer-
"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.".-Aesop-
"A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.".-Baltasar Gracian-
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"Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'twas one of my most intimate enemies.".-Dante Gabriel Rossetti-
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.".-Lord George Byron-
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something.".-Woodrow Wilson-
"It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.".-Bhagavad Gita-
"For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.".-Francis Bacon-
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"No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.".-Heraclitus-
"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.".-Og Mandino-
"The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.".-Aldous Huxley-
"By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.".-Charles Horton Cooley-
"The road to perseverance lies by doubt.".-Francis Quarles-
"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.".-Laurens van der Post-
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.".-Mark Twain-
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.".-Wilson Mizner-
"Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.".-Ann Landers-
"How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,".-Charles Lamb-
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"It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.".-Ian Mcewan-
"The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.".-Virginia Woolf-
"Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex;and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practi".-Aleister Crowley-
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"Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.." -Les Brown-
"I am the family face;flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.".-Thomas Hardy-
"An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.".-Ambrose Bierce-
"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.".-Benjamin Franklin
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"Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.".-Dick Armey-
"While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.".-Horace-
"Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.".-Nicholas Boileau-
"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.".-Alexandre Dumas-
"Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.".-Baltasar Gracian-
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"The person who has no enemies has no followers.".-Don Piatt-
"Even a paranoid can have enemies.".-Henry Kissinger-
"A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.".-Lord Henry P. Brougham-
"It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.".-Aesop-
"You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.".-Camille Paglia-
"Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it;he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.".-Francis Quarles-
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"Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.".-Horace-
"A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.".-Pierre Corneille-
"These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.".-Aldous Huxley-
"There must be a real and living doubt, and without this all discussion is idle.".-Charles S. Peirce-
"For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.".-Frederick W. Faber-
"You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.".-Learned Hand-
"Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.".-Napoleon Hill-
"This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.".-Zig Ziglar-
"Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.".-Ann Oakley-
"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners;it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness;a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.".-Charles Simmons-
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"The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.".-Jean Baudrillard-
"If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.".-Voltaire-
"My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex.".-Alicia Silverstone-
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"I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.." -Lewis Grizzard-
"In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.".-V. S. Pritchett-
"Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.".-Anacharsis-
"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.".-Benjamin Franklin
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"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.".-Doris Lessing-
"The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.".-Isaac Disraeli-
"The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.".-Oliver Goldsmith-
"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.".-Ambrose Bierce-
"Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.".-Benjamin Franklin-
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"If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.".-Elbert Hubbard-
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-
"No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.".-Napoleon Hill-
"As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.".-Akhenaton-
"The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.".-Carl Gustav Jung-
"We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
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"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.".-Hubert H. Humphrey-
"Danger breeds best on too much confidence.".-Pierre Corneille-
"We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.".-Alexander Pope-
"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.".-Christian Nevell Bovee-
"Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.".-Henry David Thoreau-
"Doubt is Devil-born.".-Lord Alfred Tennyson-
"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool;the truest heroism is to resist the doubt;and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.".-Nathaniel Hawthorne-
"When you doubt, abstain.".-Zoroaster-
"Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings;while labor profit others and ourselves.".-Anne Baxter-
"Do your duty, that is best;leave unto the Lord the rest.".-David O. Mckay-
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"I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.".-Laurence Sterne-
"Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.".-Oscar Wilde-
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.".-Winston Churchill-
"Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.".-Andy Warhol-
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"The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing;second, the gratification of one's family and friends;and lastly, the solid cash.." -Nathaniel Hawthorne-
"Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.".-Valerie Solanis-
"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.".-Bertrand Russell
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"The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.".-Doug Larson-
"In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.".-Jean Baudrillard-
"Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.".-Oliver Goldsmith-
"Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.".-Angela Carter-
"Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.".-Benjamin Franklin-
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"Never explain - your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway.".-Elbert Hubbard-
"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.".-Kahlil Gibran-
"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.".-Oscar Wilde-
"As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body;so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.".-Akhenaton-
"The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.".-Carl Gustav Jung-
"When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries everywhere is in danger.".-Franklin D. Roosevelt-
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"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning;quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.".-Jean Baudrillard-
"To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.".-Pierre Corneille-
"To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost - that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization - is to extend the scope of social ob".-Victor Hugo-
"There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing;if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.".-Arnold Bennett-
"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.".-Clarence Darrow-
"I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.".-Henry David Thoreau-
"Faith lives in honest doubt.".-Lord Alfred Tennyson-
"A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us;to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.".-Abraham Lincoln-
"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.".-Anton Chekhov-
"Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.".-Douglas Macarthur-
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"I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.".-Lois McMaster Bujold-
"On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ''This was their finest hour.''".-Winston Churchill-
"Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.".-Andy Warhol-
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"Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.." -Novalis-
"Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.".-Vince Lombardi-
"The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.".-Bob Dylan
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"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.".-Douglas Adams-
"The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.".-Lawrence Durrell-
"Wise men talk because they have something to say;fools, because they have to say something.".-Plato-
"Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving;calmer, quieter, more humane.".-Ann Oakley-
"Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.".-Benjamin Franklin-
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"Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.".-Frances Cornford-
"Enemies are so stimulating.".-Katharine Hepburn-
"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.".-Oscar Wilde-
"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.".-Alfred Adler-
"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
"The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
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"The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.".-Karl Marx-
"We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.".-Pierre Corneille-
"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.".-Vince Lombardi-
"There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome -to be got over.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization;but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely".-Clark Kenneth-
"Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task.".-Henry James-
"There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.".-Lord Alfred Tennyson-
"One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.".-Abraham Lincoln-
"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.".-Bernard Shaw-
"When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me.".-Dr. Jess Lair-
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"The dead cannot cry out for justice;it is a duty of the living to do so for them.".-Lois McMaster Bujold-
"The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.".-Oscar Wilde-
"There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.".-Winston Churchill-
"If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.".-Anita Loos-
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"The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.." -Og Mandino-
"In my family, the biggest sin was to buy retail.".-Woody Allen-
"But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.".-Basil Bunting-
"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.".-Cato the Elder
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"Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.".-Elbert Hubbard-
"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.".-Lord George Byron-
"It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.".-Voltaire-
"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.".-Antisthenes-
"Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.".-Bertrand Russell-
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"Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride;if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.".-Francesco Petrarch-
"The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.".-Lao-Tzu-
"To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.".-Plato-
"The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.".-Andrew Jackson-
"Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
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"We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.".-Kwame Nkrumah-
"A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.".-Pierre Joseph Proudhon-
"There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.".-Wilson Mizner-
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.".-Bertrand Russell-
"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.".-Cynthia Heimel-
"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.".-Lord George Byron-
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day;begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old n".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Lets have faith that right makes might;and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.".-Abraham Lincoln-
"A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.".-Bertrand Russell-
"It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.".-Franklin D. Roosevelt-
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"The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.".-Lord Acton-
"Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Character is a by-product;it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.".-Woodrow T. Wilson-
"That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys;as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping ".-Anita Loos-
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