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We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the

very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong. Joe Lieberman Here's kind of my motto - if you're not happy at home, you're not happy anywhere else. Angie Harmon There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. Bill Gates My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience. Cab Calloway Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work. Alan Bullock

Although every step must be taken to protect against a chemical or biological

attack in America, our nation would survive the use of those weapons as we did when anthrax was mailed to our Capitol and other targets. Adam Schiff Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. Yogi Berra Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. Simone Weil I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. Robert Indiana Time needs another minute. Sly Stone

People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one

thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate. Kristin Scott Thomas One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. Antoine de Saint-Exupery I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. John Keats Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. Margaret Cho I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor. Samuel Dash

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus

to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates? Samuel Hopkins I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper. Allan Sherman I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. Seamus Heaney Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance. William Wirt I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by. Sally Rand

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the

simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. Niccolo Machiavelli In my opinion I do not think I am a better guitarist than Ace, I honestly think we're both different, and we both brought something unique to the musical. Vinnie Vincent I have a short attention span. Tony Scott There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes. Alice Hamilton Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed. Chuck Palahniuk

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing

to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States. Peter Singer We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory. Mary McAleese To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so. Robert Orben Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. Quintilian Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. Lewis Carroll

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic.

I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it. Jeffrey Eugenides An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening. Boy George The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject. Phyllis Schlafly But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me. John Fahey To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. William Hazlitt

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that

had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious. David Baker When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do. Howard Fineman Humor comes from self-confidence. Rita Mae Brown The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. Douglas MacArthur What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Norman Douglas

People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95%

of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no. Victoria Pratt The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. Karl Marx I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war. Jack Scalia It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them. Brigham Young Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. Thomas Wolfe

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops

some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be. John Heywood I believe it is peace in our time. Neville Chamberlain I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor. Sydney Pollack Australia was great. I would advise anybody to go there. In fact, if you couldn't live here, Australia would be the place to live. It's the most Americanized country that I've ever seen in the world. Jerry Lawler When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. Ursula K. Le Guin

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not

looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. Charles Dickens It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. Anthony Hecht Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. Thomas Huxley When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy. Joe Elliott Ideas are, in truth, force. Henry James

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member

of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. John Stuart Mill It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. Thomas Carlyle What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism. Rowan Williams There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. Harry Crews Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. Voltaire

I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them

to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that. Otis Blackwell Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside. Ali Akbar Khan It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. Ben Stein Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem. Nicolas Chamfort Dennis Conner is Pete Rose in deck shoes. Dave Anderson

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each

generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future. Alberto Moravia Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums. Rick Allen Freedom begins as we become conscious of it. Vernon Howard A gift in season is a double favor to the needy. Publilius Syrus The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. Victor Hugo

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name,

for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. Emma Orczy Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. Lucille Ball The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression. Samuel Johnson I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind. Broderick Crawford We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into. Barry Gibb

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like

it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music. Ayumi Hamasaki All grace grows as Love to the Word of God grows. Philip Henry Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them. Dag Hammarskjold I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist. Ray Conniff Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films. Barry Gibb

Yeah I do and I don't mind, in fact that is one of

the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes. Leo Kottke Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. Lao Tzu The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. Ruth Benedict Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day! William Arthur Ward Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Confucius

I do think that it's extremely important with this character show her assuming

power with a great deal of grace, and find out how to do things she won't like - the things she's called upon to do. Mary McDonnell I position everything else in my life around making movies. Richard King Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it! Agnetha Faltskog Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation. Dianne Feinstein

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes

by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak. William Godwin I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air. Margaret Thatcher It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. Robert Louis Stevenson I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy. Noah Wyle Don't let schooling interfere with your education. Mark Twain

What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the

priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work. Peter MacKay Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues. Ernie Fletcher I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money. Alain Prost If a tree dies, plant another in its place. Carolus Linnaeus Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. Thomas Gray

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to

incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. Claude Debussy After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see. Joy Page The detached observer's view is one window on the world. Kenneth L. Pike My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong. A. J. Foyt Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. Allan Bloom

Brimstone was great. That was another occasion when they called me in to

do the pilot and it turned into a regular job, which made me quite happy. It was another really good experience and we were all so surprised when they pulled the plug on it. John Glover This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war. Tom Daschle The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters. Zach Braff Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. Francisco Goya Fear makes us feel our humanity. Benjamin Disraeli

You know, people who almost - yeah, there's a slight reluctance there -

but there's also an ambiguity. What are their morals? What is their code of living. What are they really doing here. And it is just interesting because it is never black or white. Matt Robinson I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. George Burns Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. George Balanchine We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. Albert Einstein The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it. Muhammad Iqbal

I've found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in

their daily work, they tend to open up quite a bit and let you know what they really think about the issues facing our country and what kind of job they think the government is doing. Bob Beauprez Passion and strife bow down the mind. Virgil You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've put on weight. Christy Turlington I don't want to pierce anything. I think it's outdated. Belly rings and all are, like, old. Britney Spears There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing. Gabe Paul

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to

do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands. Orison Swett Marden Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails. Dirk Benedict I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything's a bit brighter and more in focus. Robbie Coltrane Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. Ellen Key You must make the product interesting, not just make the ad different. And that's what too many of the copywriters in the U.S. today don't yet understand. Rosser Reeves

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals

the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove. James Beattie We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. Jane Austen Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. Manfred Eigen Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in. Gunter Grass If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. Noam Chomsky

In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still

being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is. Brian Austin Green You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. Antoine de Saint-Exupery The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible. Pierre Bonnard Good is not good when better is expected. Vin Scully Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with. Jared Diamond

There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a

great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work. Sam Mendes A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering. Carl Hubbell We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us. Patricia Ireland The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. Emily Dickinson The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world. James F. Cooper

But you have to take all of those things, you have to take

into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play. Richard Serra Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. Jimmy Carter The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio. Debbie Allen If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself. Henry David Thoreau Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are. James Cash Penney

At that time, I was signed to Columbia Records as an Independent Producer.

I spent many weeks forming, auditioning, rehearsing and recording demos for Kenny, who was finally signed to Columbia Records. Jim Messina We were five heterosexual, good-looking men. We competed against each other for the sexiest girls... I won. Simon Le Bon They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit. Chinua Achebe Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude. Jesse Jackson Sometimes I like to vent. Victoria Jackson

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are

in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them. Charles Edison Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society. John Cameron Stronger by weakness, wiser men become. Edmund Waller When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot. Stephen Root The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied -

whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of. Catherine the Great Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film. Aaron Eckhart Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. Clarence Thomas You cannot travel within and stand still without. James Lane Allen Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water? Nicolas Chamfort

Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of

The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score. Elmer Bernstein In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet! Joseph Smith, Jr. My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up. Brian Molko Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. Honore de Balzac None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. Bertrand Russell

I think that the game is the game. I think that expansion is

good for the game because it gives more jobs to the people and more ballplayers can play, but I think the game is still the game. The ballplayers, they come into the game with one thing in mind - it's their job. Tony Oliva On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement. Marc Maron Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate. Ambrose Bierce It is no secret that those of us in the Northwest believe the Administration's proposal to drive up the cost of electricity in our region is not only misguided, but also will not achieve the intended goal of raising money for the treasury. Greg Walden Prosperity is the best protector of principle. Mark Twain

If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if

Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term. Ed Gillespie If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly. Max Nordau Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality? George A. Moore That the decision is taken away from the voters, and as in 2000 turned over to the lawyers and the courts. John Fund Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. Sigmund Freud

I like to be sort of grounded with Fish. But, at the same

time, I think probably what's unique about us is the way other dynamics happen, where I'll play off Trey for awhile. When we start playing a jam, I don't usually know what's going to happen, I don't have a plan. Mike Gordon A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. Ludwig Wittgenstein I said I would get better with each baby, and I have. Demi Moore If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns. Michael D. Barnes Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. Harriet Martineau

To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition

to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work. Krzysztof Kieslowski We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. Edward de Bono The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. Alfred A. Montapert Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work. Richard Serra Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic. Barbet Schroeder

Lately Fish and I have been hooking up more, which is a good

thing because it's just been a struggle for me as a bass player to play with someone who's so creative on the drums, and lately it's been really good, especially during sound checks. Mike Gordon Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment. Franklin D. Roosevelt Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are! Shakti Gawain Many cats are the death of the mouse. Kaspar Hauser Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. George Will

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them

very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers. Henry Walter Bates A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round. Edmund Waller The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary. Gloria Steinem The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. Henry Kissinger The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil. James Monroe

Granted, prostate exams aren't the most enjoyable things in the world, but they

only last about 10 seconds. It's well worth it. Just think of the possible consequences if you don't get it done. Len Dawson I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!' Emo Philips I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences. Peter Tosh Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven. George Sand It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home. Florence Ellinwood Allen

I have been an 'Official' all my life, without the least turn for

it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity. William Allingham Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence. Arthur H. Compton It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem. Malcolm Forbes I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member. Groucho Marx The spiritual is the parent of the practical. Thomas Carlyle

The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do

nice, elaborate websites, but I think the downside is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me. Denise Richards People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side! Ken Hensley My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead. John C. Hawkes Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League. Tug McGraw As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity. Jean Paul

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to

resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil. William Godwin All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. Friedrich Nietzsche Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change. John Walters You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level. Tobey Maguire The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. Thomas Jefferson

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value

and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it. Josiah Warren One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life. Dakota Fanning Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of. Ellen Goodman What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority. Robert Altman Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi. Buddy Guy

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within

us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. Primo Levi Discretion is not the better part of biography. Lytton Strachey A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before. Frank Rizzo Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination. Mary Douglas Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God. Abraham Joshua Heschel

We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot

of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present. Derek Jeter Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. Benjamin Franklin Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous. Michael Ondaatje I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock. Henny Youngman One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. William Hazlitt

And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the

pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent. Sibel Edmonds I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in. Amanda Burton Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything. Morihei Ueshiba You know, differentiating between training and matches. If they are all matches it becomes very natural to shoot them, although Dan thinks I should shoot more of them. I think I shoot plenty of them. Nancy Johnson If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better. Kjell Magne Bondevik

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we

must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings. Stockwell Day I made all my generals out of mud. Napoleon Bonaparte If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone. Ann Oakley It was lights, camera, inaction. Terry Gilliam Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success! David O. McKay

My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He

always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player. Eric Williams One missing child is one too many. John Walsh Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is. John Engler The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. Arthur Miller Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress. Bryant H. McGill

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms

of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost. Donald Rumsfeld Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. Aristotle I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. Georges Bataille I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation. Robert Vaughn It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers. Sidney Blumenthal

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the

beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life. Luigi Pirandello What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? Adam Smith Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. Wendell Johnson The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff. William Bell I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning. John Barrymore

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some

occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long. Wilson Mizner If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. Cardinal Richelieu I head a nation of a million presidents. Chaim Weizmann A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. Edward Abbey If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor. Robert Chambers

The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving

vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street. Gavin Newsom From where they stood, they could see the castle. Frank Yerby My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals. Gordon Getty So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable. Douglas Haig Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. Henry Fielding

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.

But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement. Leon Trotsky You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good. Jerry West The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. Kurt Vonnegut Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing. Joan Chen It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high. Amy Sedaris

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often

labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. Pope Benedict XVI The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges. Benazir Bhutto The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces. Thomas Aquinas A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. Leonard Bernstein Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. Natalie Clifford Barney

I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what

I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start. Dale Evans Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Medical physics is an applied area of physics. John Cameron There will always be someone being picked on at school, and it's not going to go away. Alexa Vega Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave? Lord Byron

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big

ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught. Jacques Maritain Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. Jim Rohn Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all. Mahatma Gandhi Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done. James Fenton The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. Benjamin Franklin

When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed

to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real strength of our nation comes from our people - not our buildings. Michael Enzi I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time. Elliott Gould Whether will the twain will ye that I release unto you? Pontius Pilate Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot. John Major Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. Henry Fielding

I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of

mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas. Robert Ryan When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel. Harold Kushner My wife has them all in a vault... a copy of every album. Jerry Goldsmith A dimple on the chin, the devil within. Pope Paul VI The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us. Knute Nelson

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts

at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them. Dolly Parton He who labours, prays. Saint Augustine If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk. Bill Rodgers I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed. Owen Hart You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl. George Eliot

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has

created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. Paul Tillich The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans. Tabare Vazquez You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future. Warren Bennis My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it. Julian Barbour As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves. Norman Macleod

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot

a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning. Marv Levy When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons. John Webster By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. Sextus Propertius Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess? Robert Byrd Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. Marcus Aurelius

You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged

or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses. Elizabeth Moon It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline. George Lindsey For some reason, it popped into my head the notion that a lot of the Next Generation cast in the long run of that show managed to step behind the camera. Michael Shanks Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding. William Wycherley An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself. John Lone

I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs

with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain. Ben Folds I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences. Louis Farrakhan Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man. Konrad Lorenz Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. Nelson Rockefeller Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us. Matthew Simpson

I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women

becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women. Anita Hill Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people. Samantha Bee I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized. Jalal Talabani I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify. Jeff Gannon Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people. Brion James

People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better

at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared. Takeru Kobayashi Britain leads the way in fund raising. I am so proud of Britain. Sharon Osbourne The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it. Constantin Stanislavski Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this? Michael Keaton We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together. Alex Van Halen

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans

cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. C. Wright Mills When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery. Lynn Abbey In spite of your fear, do what you have to do. Chin-Ning Chu I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific. Lily Tomlin The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Alfred A. Montapert

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation.

We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love. Red Cloud Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot. Leo Durocher Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. Oscar Wilde I'd like to think I could do something great - a performance like Meryl Streep's in 'Sophie's Choice' - at some point in my life. At the same time, though, I don't want to put too much pressure on myself to be great. Heather Graham Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. Charles Buck

Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be

challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot. Evander Holyfield Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover. Giotto di Bondone It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be. Vincent Canby Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. John Archibald Wheeler I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. Abraham Lincoln

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the

18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything. Joseph J. Ellis The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy. Laurell K. Hamilton You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. Joseph Conrad Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness. Bo Bennett There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s. Andrew Greeley

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of

clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Joseph Addison A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. David Hockney War remains the decisive human failure. John Kenneth Galbraith Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset. Evan Thomas Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it. Ben Okri

We work hard on the show. We really believe in the show. It's

an enormous privilege to work on a show that has the power to touch people's lives in such a positive way. The fan mail and the e-mail certainly reflect that. Roma Downey The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely. Robert Bolt If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me? Jayson Blair The very heart of being a sovereign nation is providing security of one's borders, of one's internal situation, and security against anyone attacking one's nation. That is the very heart of what I believe is sovereignty. John Warner My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter. Judy Johnson

In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it

was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing. Amy Grant I don't have Steve. There is no having the Steve. Cynthia Nixon I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate. Leon Jaworski The best artists know what to leave out. Charles de Lint It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office. Paul Samuelson

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life

which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies. Joseph Wood Krutch Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes. Robert Altman In some ways, people forget about average working people, and how they live their lives. Lee Scott You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there. William Empson War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. John McCain

People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is

borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America. James Inhofe For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? Jane Austen Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government. Robert Taft I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself. Damon Hill Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking. Bernard Baruch

Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install

it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines. Nat Friedman Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. William Blake Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity. Jane Rule We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living. Tryon Edwards Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling

its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? David R. Brower The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence. Aung San Suu Kyi The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language. Max Frisch When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on. Henry Fielding Men still have to be governed by deception. Georg C. Lichtenberg

But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by

armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League. Arthur Henderson Success is 99 percent failure. Soichiro Honda I was in a profession that received a lot of media. Darrell Royal You have to be insane to direct. Morris Chestnut It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life. Epicurus

In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some

times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency. Henry Charles Carey I don't know the true meaning of happiness. Jonathan Davis Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases? Persius Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written. Stanley Crouch We are suffering from too much sarcasm. Marianne Moore

The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say:

'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.' Harold H. Greene It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job. Patricia Clarkson I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much. Jeremy Brett An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. Quentin Crisp The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. Cyril Connolly

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all

the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom. Ezra Stiles Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives. Kenny Guinn Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge'they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely. Vissarion Belinsky It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere. Mary Wesley Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die. Bill Cosby

The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would,

therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent. Joseph Hume Everything has an end. Nicholas Lea The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex. Hugh Hefner The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy. Dwight D. Eisenhower Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability. Natan Sharansky

What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing

from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.' David R. Brower The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. Larry Wall The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. Sun Tzu I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order. Mike Pence Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed. John Fiske

Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are

beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities. Mike Davidson If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher. Charles Bent No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. Plutarch She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over. David Gest All we ask is to be let alone. Jefferson Davis

You know, that kind of coldness, you know. And I think, yeah, I

think that definitely helped. The female characters on the show, you can see some of them wanting to know what makes him tick. And I guess that translates into some of the fans outside. You know? Matt Robinson Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain. Marquis de Sade The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. Keanu Reeves There is no right in acting. Frank Langella To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task. Sophocles

We are looking for targets that have a tremendous strategic fit for the

company. The colleges must have complementary education programs, have an excellent reputation, long operating history and solid regulatory compliance. John Larson Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent. Peter Straub The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating. John Walters I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance. Wanda Sykes I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it. Neil Sheehan

My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles,

the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science. Andrei Sakharov I do believe there's good in all of us, even if it's layered over so thickly. Lili Taylor Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free. Anthony Wayne I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem. Robert Guillaume When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time. Rachel Perry

I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe

that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them. Roland Allen A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect. William Petty The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. William Blake I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. H. L. Mencken There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. C. S. Lewis

My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it

sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name. Holly Marie Combs We had some marvelous outtakes, but the producer had destroyed them all. Alan Young The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood. Germaine Greer There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. Doug Larson It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends. Jean Racine

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