Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.
- Ronald Reagan
When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
- Aeschylus
I don't understand."
"How can you not understand?" He pointed at her books. "You read novels. Obviously, I'm here to rescue you. Don't I look like Sir Galahad?... My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure - "
Something echoed, far away inside the house - the sound of a door slamming.
Will said a word Sir Galahad would never have said, and sprang away from the window.
- Cassandra Clare
True strength isn't in killingor ignoringyour opponent, it's in having the will to shield those who need your protection.
- Ilona Andrews
Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.
- Jennifer Armintrout
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
- Francis Bacon
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
- Marcus Aurelius
Believe me, lady, my strength is the one thing I never doubt. (Vane)
It's amazing the lies we tell other people, isn't it? (Sunshine's grandmother)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
- John Beecher
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
- Arthur Helps
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.
- Franklin D Roosevelt
We resist our brokenness because we want to BE STRONG, but little do we know that strength is obtained only through our brokenness, because where we are weak and broken we find God's strength to get us through.
- Heather Bixler
Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Also, we will make promise. So long as The Blood endures,
I shall know that your good is mine: ye shall feel that my strength is yours:
In the day of Armageddon, at the last great fight of all,
That Our House stand together and the pillars do not fall.
- Rudyard Kipling
My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
- Katharine Hepburn
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
- Pearl S Buck
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.
(Young India, 4 October 1930)
- Mahatma Gandhi
The most privileged position, in life as in society, is that of an educated soldier. Rough warriors, at any rate, remain true to their character, and as great strength is usually the cover for good nature, we get on with them at need.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few priveledged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.
- Billy Bush
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
- George W Bush
Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.
- George Clooney
A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.
- Robert A Heinlein
Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
- Joseph Conrad
What saves us is efficiency--the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely a squeeze, and nothing more, I suspect. They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force-- nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
- Joseph Conrad
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
- Joseph Conrad
I mean I'm not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is.
- Jim Cramer
I learned from you that I do not crumble. I learned that strength is somthing you choose.
- Miley Cyrus
Menjadi kuat bukan berarti kamu tahu segalanya. Bukan berarti kamu tidak bisa hancur. Kekuatanmu ada pada kemampuanmu bangkit lagi ketika berkali-kali jatuh. Jangan pikirkan kamu akan sampai dimana dan kapan. Tidak ada yang tahu. Your strength is simply your will to go on
- Dee
My strength is my enthusiasm.
- Placido Domingo
I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit.
- Jennifer Donnelly
what a book this is, and what lessons there are in it! What a book is Holy Scripture, what a miracle and what a strength is given to man with it! Like a sculpture composed of the world, of man and human characters, and it has all been named and explained for the ages, ever more. And how many mysteries are resolved and revealed... (Concerning Holy Scripture in the Life of Fr. Zosima)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
But deep down she said to herself, Franz may be strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goodness.
- Milan Kundera
My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.
- Michael Eisner
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
- Havelock Ellis
I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.
- Guy Forget
Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
- James Anthony Froude
Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
- Jennifer M Granholm
We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
- Jennifer M Granholm
The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.
- Joanne Greenberg
Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.
- Scott Hahn
Let me tell you about weakness! Killing the strong to prove your strength is foolish weakness. Killing fools is easy weakness. Killing the weak is evil weakness. Accomplishing your ends without killing, mastering your mind when you want to kill--that is strength!
- Victoria Hanley
I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.
- Gregory Harrison
Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
- Lech Walesa
Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.
- Daisaku Ikeda
America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.
- Ernest Istook
My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.
- Ernest Istook
Every form of strength is also a form of weakness," he once wrote. "Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them. I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.
- Michael Lewis
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
- Madame De Stael
I think I understand that religious faith which makes the holy brave and strong; my strength is just somewhere else--it's in myself...I do not fear what may await me, though I'm equally confident that nothing awaits.
- Jon Krakauer
Strength is taking charge of your own destiny and not waiting on others to do so. You don't have to swear and drink and beat people up and slay monsters. You're allowed to cry and take care of children and cook and get your heart broken and dress up and date and get pregnant. But when decisions have to be made, a strong character makes them and doesn't wait for someone else.
- Mur Lafferty
I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.
- Joshua Lederberg
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
- Audre Lorde
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
- Mignon Mclaughlin
It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.
- Knute Nelson
True strength is delicate.
- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
The determination that is his biggest strength ... is also at times his fatal flaw. Like an unthinking machine, he'll just keep shoving, not realizing a step back, a one-night pause, could let some obstacle move out of the way and smooth his path.
- Lin Pardey
A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking.
A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail.
- Marge Piercy
Anyone can pluck a flower...true strength is knowing how to give it life.
- Aprilynne Pike
The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain.
- Mary Lynn Rajskub
How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness upon his irresistible yet indomitable strength? Is he not the wizend funeral spirit of a dead man in a child's clothes?
- Anne Rice
There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.
- Arthur Scargill
A person's strength is to know their weaknesses.
- Russell Simmons
Strength is not something you have, it's something you find.
- Emma Smith
The gospel of Jesus Christ has the divine power to lift you to great heights from what appears at times to be an unbearable burden or weakness. The Lord knows your circumstances and your challenges. He said to Paul and to all of us, 'My grace is sufficient for thee.' And like Paul we can answer: 'My strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me'(2 Corinthinans 12:9).
- Dieter F Uchtdorf
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
- Judith Viorst
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
- Swami Vivekananda
Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.
Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.
Love is Life, Hatred is Death.
- Swami Vivekananda
...my sisters are tough. Our strength is in our laughter (Dan)
- Amanda Welch
Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.
- H G Wells
Timeand all the events held thereinplays out as it must. We cannot impose our will on it. The only true measure of strength is our ability to bear that which time demands.
- Michelle Zink
- Ronald Reagan
When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
- Aeschylus
I don't understand."
"How can you not understand?" He pointed at her books. "You read novels. Obviously, I'm here to rescue you. Don't I look like Sir Galahad?... My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure - "
Something echoed, far away inside the house - the sound of a door slamming.
Will said a word Sir Galahad would never have said, and sprang away from the window.
- Cassandra Clare
True strength isn't in killingor ignoringyour opponent, it's in having the will to shield those who need your protection.
- Ilona Andrews
Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.
- Jennifer Armintrout
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
- Francis Bacon
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
- Marcus Aurelius
Believe me, lady, my strength is the one thing I never doubt. (Vane)
It's amazing the lies we tell other people, isn't it? (Sunshine's grandmother)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
- John Beecher
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
- Arthur Helps
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.
- Franklin D Roosevelt
We resist our brokenness because we want to BE STRONG, but little do we know that strength is obtained only through our brokenness, because where we are weak and broken we find God's strength to get us through.
- Heather Bixler
Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Also, we will make promise. So long as The Blood endures,
I shall know that your good is mine: ye shall feel that my strength is yours:
In the day of Armageddon, at the last great fight of all,
That Our House stand together and the pillars do not fall.
- Rudyard Kipling
My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
- Katharine Hepburn
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
- Pearl S Buck
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.
(Young India, 4 October 1930)
- Mahatma Gandhi
The most privileged position, in life as in society, is that of an educated soldier. Rough warriors, at any rate, remain true to their character, and as great strength is usually the cover for good nature, we get on with them at need.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few priveledged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.
- Billy Bush
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
- George W Bush
Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.
- George Clooney
A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.
- Robert A Heinlein
Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
- Joseph Conrad
What saves us is efficiency--the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely a squeeze, and nothing more, I suspect. They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force-- nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
- Joseph Conrad
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
- Joseph Conrad
I mean I'm not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is.
- Jim Cramer
I learned from you that I do not crumble. I learned that strength is somthing you choose.
- Miley Cyrus
Menjadi kuat bukan berarti kamu tahu segalanya. Bukan berarti kamu tidak bisa hancur. Kekuatanmu ada pada kemampuanmu bangkit lagi ketika berkali-kali jatuh. Jangan pikirkan kamu akan sampai dimana dan kapan. Tidak ada yang tahu. Your strength is simply your will to go on
- Dee
My strength is my enthusiasm.
- Placido Domingo
I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit.
- Jennifer Donnelly
what a book this is, and what lessons there are in it! What a book is Holy Scripture, what a miracle and what a strength is given to man with it! Like a sculpture composed of the world, of man and human characters, and it has all been named and explained for the ages, ever more. And how many mysteries are resolved and revealed... (Concerning Holy Scripture in the Life of Fr. Zosima)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
But deep down she said to herself, Franz may be strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goodness.
- Milan Kundera
My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.
- Michael Eisner
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
- Havelock Ellis
I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.
- Guy Forget
Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
- James Anthony Froude
Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
- Jennifer M Granholm
We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
- Jennifer M Granholm
The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.
- Joanne Greenberg
Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.
- Scott Hahn
Let me tell you about weakness! Killing the strong to prove your strength is foolish weakness. Killing fools is easy weakness. Killing the weak is evil weakness. Accomplishing your ends without killing, mastering your mind when you want to kill--that is strength!
- Victoria Hanley
I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.
- Gregory Harrison
Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
- Lech Walesa
Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.
- Daisaku Ikeda
America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.
- Ernest Istook
My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.
- Ernest Istook
Every form of strength is also a form of weakness," he once wrote. "Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them. I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.
- Michael Lewis
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
- Madame De Stael
I think I understand that religious faith which makes the holy brave and strong; my strength is just somewhere else--it's in myself...I do not fear what may await me, though I'm equally confident that nothing awaits.
- Jon Krakauer
Strength is taking charge of your own destiny and not waiting on others to do so. You don't have to swear and drink and beat people up and slay monsters. You're allowed to cry and take care of children and cook and get your heart broken and dress up and date and get pregnant. But when decisions have to be made, a strong character makes them and doesn't wait for someone else.
- Mur Lafferty
I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.
- Joshua Lederberg
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
- Audre Lorde
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
- Mignon Mclaughlin
It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.
- Knute Nelson
True strength is delicate.
- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
The determination that is his biggest strength ... is also at times his fatal flaw. Like an unthinking machine, he'll just keep shoving, not realizing a step back, a one-night pause, could let some obstacle move out of the way and smooth his path.
- Lin Pardey
A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking.
A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail.
- Marge Piercy
Anyone can pluck a flower...true strength is knowing how to give it life.
- Aprilynne Pike
The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain.
- Mary Lynn Rajskub
How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness upon his irresistible yet indomitable strength? Is he not the wizend funeral spirit of a dead man in a child's clothes?
- Anne Rice
There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.
- Arthur Scargill
A person's strength is to know their weaknesses.
- Russell Simmons
Strength is not something you have, it's something you find.
- Emma Smith
The gospel of Jesus Christ has the divine power to lift you to great heights from what appears at times to be an unbearable burden or weakness. The Lord knows your circumstances and your challenges. He said to Paul and to all of us, 'My grace is sufficient for thee.' And like Paul we can answer: 'My strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me'(2 Corinthinans 12:9).
- Dieter F Uchtdorf
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
- Judith Viorst
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
- Swami Vivekananda
Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.
Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.
Love is Life, Hatred is Death.
- Swami Vivekananda
...my sisters are tough. Our strength is in our laughter (Dan)
- Amanda Welch
Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.
- H G Wells
Timeand all the events held thereinplays out as it must. We cannot impose our will on it. The only true measure of strength is our ability to bear that which time demands.
- Michelle Zink
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