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I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.
- Dennis C. Blair
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Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.
- David Douglass
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One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.
- Joseph Jacobs
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Analysis of soil, grave goods and skeletons has been key to our understanding of archaeology and the migration of peoples, as well as their daily lives. But in mainstream history, we tend to stick to documents.
- Kate Williams
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Countries only have certain opportunities in history, and if you do not take advantage of them, those opportunities don't ever come back to you again.
- Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
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If you don't know your history, you don't have an idea how you channel things in your life. Knowing that history, I was able to fulfil my goals.
- Viv Richards
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I was always pretty interested in my history. Not just the history of the Caribbean, the history of my people, but all walks of life.
- Viv Richards
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Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.
- Peter Warlock
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Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly.
- Dave Sim
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Once I beat Gervonta Davis like I've been calling it, that's going to be like history repeats itself with Sonny Liston and Muhammad Ali.
- Ryan Garcia
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I'm down for making history.
- Jermell Charlo
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I'm not a quitter, man. Just look at my history.
- Dustin Poirier
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God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ, with Their perfect foreknowledge, already recommended every one of you to fill your mortal probation during the most decisive period in the history of the world.
- Sheri L. Dew
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I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.
- Jeff Koons
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It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and enriching part of the history and heritage of the United States.
- Mark Foley
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Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.
- Catherine Helen Spence
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It is fashionable in some quarters to say our ancestors were all evil. I reject that notion. I also reject the elitist worldview that these United States are anything but the greatest nation in the history of mankind.
- Tate Reeves
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Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.
- Myles Munroe
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My main goal is to become the most successful weightlifter in history.
- Ilya Ilyin
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There are a handful of legacy clubs like the Dodgers in each league. They're in major markets and have a history of winning where, if you do things right, there's an enormous upside.
- Dave Checketts
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The cable package continues to be the greatest value in the history of entertainment. The average hour watched on cable television costs between 15 and 25 cents. For most people who cannot afford other kinds of entertainment, it is their entertainment.
- John Skipper
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We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation, and we are an immigrant church. We've always done that; this is nothing new to us. This is not a new venture for us. It's who we are and have been from the very beginning of the history of the Catholic Church in this country.
- Blase J. Cupich
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Watching President Obama, for the first time in my life, one of us was running for president. He seemed like one of us - and I got behind him, and I got excited about his message and what he continues to say he's going to do. The day he was elected president, Prop 8 happened. It was this bizarre dichotomy - world history - good and bad.
- Gavin Creel
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My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.
- Angie Everhart
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Obviously, over the history of certainly the last 300 years, it was that men went out and worked, and women stayed home. Yes okay, that's the way it was. But certainly it isn't that women weren't able to do it.
- Donna Strickland
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I know who Queen Elizabeth represents. I know she's the head of the British state. I know she has all sorts of titles in relation to different regiments in the British army. She knows my history. She knows I was a member of the IRA. She knows I was in conflict with her soldiers, yet both of us were prepared to rise above all of that.
- Martin McGuinness
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Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.
- John Polkinghorne
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We cannot get by Auschwitz. We should not even try, as great as the temptation is, because Auschwitz belongs to us, is branded into our history, and - to our benefit! - has made possible an insight that could be summarized as, 'Now we finally know ourselves.'
- Gunter Grass
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Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don't remember what happened yesterday.
- Howard Fast
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China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.
- Ai Weiwei
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'A People's History of the United States' was actually a very big book for me. I read it in high school, and I felt like my mind was really blown by it. I think the truth is I read it because it's referenced in 'Good Will Hunting.'
- Greta Gerwig
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When I was deciding whether or not to take the job at Celine, I didn't really look at the history of the house. I had other offers to come back, but they weren't right, or they wouldn't let me stay in London, which was non-negotiable.
- Phoebe Philo
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No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.
- Hu Shih
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The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often been given a shot in the history of art.
- Clifford Ross
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Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
- Saul Williams
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American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.
- Chris Jordan
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When we have a disaster in Japan, I wonder, how can we prevent our lives and traditions and history from the disaster?
- Makoto Shinkai
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As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.
- Benjamin Todd Jealous
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A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.
- Richard Reeves
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We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.
- Nursultan Nazarbayev
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I would like to pass into history as the man of the economic miracle of Angola... That's my mission.
- Joao Lourenco
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Speaking as a writer, it would be difficult to find an event in American history more dramatic and riveting than the Civil War.
- David Zabel
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Every country has a dark side of their history.
- Miyavi
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I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.
- Seth Grahame-Smith
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I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.
- Seth Grahame-Smith
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I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.
- Seth Grahame-Smith
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The idea of a musical comedy was something we had had in mind for many years, but the project 'Igudesman & Joo: A Little Nightmare Music' has a history that goes back five years. I can say that this is the most successful project that we have ever done.
- Aleksey Igudesman
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Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.
- John Thorn
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And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.
- Michael Berryman
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From 1801, Napoleon began an ambitious programme of civil reform to standardise law and justice, centralise education, introduce uniform weights and measures and a fully functioning internal market. That achievement alone makes him one of the giants of history.
- Saul David
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We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a way into reading history proper.
- Saul David
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I worked hard at my four-year M.A., but got a 2.1. That was a big disappointment, as I wanted to write about history and thought I needed a First.
- Saul David
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Leeds United is one of England's greatest and most well-supported clubs with a rich history known all over the world.
- Andrea Radrizzani
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For Leeds, we have a history of being 'dirty Leeds' and we actually channel that. We want to play great football and we are doing that but we also need to fight every time we go on to the pitch.
- Andrea Radrizzani
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I want to help Leeds United return to the level our history and fans deserve. When I came to the club, I gave myself three years to deliver that and my vision remains the same: return the club to its rightful place in the Premier League and make our fans, players and staff proud of their football team.
- Andrea Radrizzani
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At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.
- Laurie Garrett
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I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history and relationship I have with photography.
- Gerard Malanga
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Art is a form of experience of the person, the place, the history of the people, and as black people, we are different. We hail from Africa to America, so the culture is mixed, from the African to the American. We can't drop that. It's reflected in the music, the dance, the poetry, and the art.
- Faith Ringgold
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If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.
- Strom Thurmond
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I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.
- Hannah Murray
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The success of 'Rome' was in making the history accessible and giving viewers everyman characters through which they can connect to historical figures. It stops the story from being too remote.
- Tobias Menzies
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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
- Aleister Crowley
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We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.
- Joichi Ito
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For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.
- Joichi Ito
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We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.
- Joichi Ito
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Aaranya Kaandam' is not the biography or history of a gangster but a page out of the life of a gangster. It is like a day in his life.
- Thiagarajan Kumararaja
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I realized we were going through one of the greatest revolutions that ever hit the history of the world - the information age - and I wanted to be a part of it.
- David Steward
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I'm coaching 'swing at this, don't swing at that,' and in the middle of it, a kid looks at me and says, 'Coach, I think I'm going to fail history.' Or maybe their girlfriend just dumped them. These are kids, and once I embraced that, this became a lot more fun.
- Tony Gwynn
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When you're driving into D.C. as a young kid and you go over the Key Bridge and see the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, and Capitol Building, they become a part of the landscape for you. You are also constantly in contact with this idea that history, and the people that made it, are being remembered.
- Thomas Kail
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My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history.
- Martin Kippenberger
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There's such a rich history in 'SNL' of political humor, and I think audience members expect that from us.
- Sasheer Zamata
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In these momentous hours of our history we call on every Hungarian worker who is led by devotion to the people and the country to join our Party, the name of which is the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party.
- Janos Kadar
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In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the history books.
- Colum McCann
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History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
- Cotton Mather
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Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.
- Ori Gersht
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We ship owners and our predecessors, all the way back to the dawn of history, operating in majority on private initiative and at our own risk, have been linking the world together much more effectively than governments ever managed to do or will likely ever be capable of doing.
- Helmut Sohmen
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I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.
- Lori Greiner
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Most filmmakers aren't very interested in history. They worry constantly that people will be bored.
- Geoffrey Ward
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I am just one of many who have played their part in Argentina's football history.
- Mario Kempes
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I never sat down and said, 'Now I must make a contribution, that one person can make a difference.' But I felt I was in a position where I could contribute. I never thought of it in the light of history or my brothers. I just felt I had an obligation.
- Jean Kennedy Smith
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Spain is an important historical ally of the United States, and if confirmed, I will add to our more than 200 years of diplomatic history to further our shared interests.
- James Costos
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Middle East history is replete with examples of missed and lost chances to make peace.
- Richard N. Haass
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At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.
- Safak Pavey
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
- Sachin Tendulkar
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The big guys choose who they want to fight and they think about history: 'how many times I defended my title.' They try to break a record: 'how long I was there.' But if you look at the pedigree, who they fought, ain't nobody gonna give them credit for it because they fought a lot of people with no experience.
- Evander Holyfield
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I did a paper on why is race so uncomfortable to discuss. Is it because you don't want to bring up bad history in America? You want to be conscious of whatever you say about that because it's a serious point.
- O. J. Mayo
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I try to understand other people's viewpoints on things and be better in the future. I think if you look at my history as a baseball player, my history on social media and my history as a person, for those who know me well, they know that I apply that process to everything that I do.
- Trevor Bauer
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I think Nick Saban is the greatest college football coach in history over there in Tuscaloosa.
- Charles Barkley
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I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Demagoguery is not unknown in American history.
- Michael Bennet
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In Russia, they have Rusalkis, and they have Selkies in Scotland, and in Fiji, you have a special mention of it. The first earliest mermaid mentioned in history books was Atargartis in Assyria, a thousand B.C... In Africa, you have Mami Wata.
- Eline Powell
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The point of that is, if you look at Walgreen's history, they've always been pioneers in the application of technology. They're the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite.
- James Collins
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What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.
- John Gregory Dunne
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Evading military service has a long history in American life.
- John Gregory Dunne
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By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.
- Hampton Sides
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I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
- Hampton Sides
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I don't concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances.
- Hampton Sides
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Mitt Romney has a history of being a great job creator. Secondly, he was a great governor. He went from billions of dollars in the hole when he became governor to billions of dollars in surplus when he left. And he went from the loss of tens of thousands jobs when he became governor to the creation of 40,000 new jobs when he left office.
- John Kasich
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If you're not critical about your history, that can be a problem because there are religious leaders, politicians and all kinds of powerful people who can take advantage of a population that isn't really thinking.
- Jose Gonzalez
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I enjoyed 13 successful seasons at Anfield, becoming the most decorated goalkeeper in league history. But I believe the match-fixing scandal arose because the press did not like this person they perceived as arrogant and who had a reputation for clowning around in games. Goalkeepers aren't supposed to do that.
- Bruce Grobbelaar
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