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Valor is superior to number.


Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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PUBLIUS FLAVIUS VEGETIUS RENATUS Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.
PUBLIUS FLAVIUS VEGETIUS RENATUS A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies ...
PUBLIUS FLAVIUS VEGETIUS RENATUS Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
FLAVIUS VEGETIUS RENATUS I simply--don't know," Flavius said, and then suddenly explosive: "I don't know and I don't care! Go...
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF He gives twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Bis dat qui cito dat.] - credited to Publius Syrus ...
JOAQUIN MILLER (PSEUDONYM OF CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER) He gives twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Bis dat qui cito dat.] - credited to Publius Syrus ...
JOHN MILTON Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
VEGETIUS the valor to fight is elite. this is victory.
RICARDO ALONSO There is always safety in valor.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Valor that parleys is near yielding.
GEORGE HERBERT Valour that parleys is near yielding.
GEORGE HERBERT VALOR, n. A soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.
AMBROSE BIERCE Discretion is the better part of valor.
ANONYMOUS Discretion is the better part of valor.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Valor is common but great souls are rare.
BERNARD JOSEPH SAURIN In false quarrels there is no true valor.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.
PAUL TSONGAS Go on and increase in valor for this is the path to immortality.
VIRGIL Events had been set in motion whose echo would be heard a thousand and more generations from now.
J. VALOR You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valor, but to bear
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
THOMAS BROWNE SR. Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
G. W. F. HEGEL The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
GEORGE HEGEL Superior intelligence combined with superior appearance will always lead to a superior ego.
KEVIN SCHALLER There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your...
THOM YORKE Valor is a soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.
AMBROSE BIERCE He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Defense is superior to opulence.
ADAM SMITH Regimen is superior to medicine.
VOLTAIRE Hay que tener un gran valor para enfrentarse a nuestros enemigos, pero se necesita aún más valor p...
J.K. ROWLING What valor cannot win, flattery may.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Uncommon valor was a common virtue.
CHESTER W. NIMITZ Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superio...
PROVERB There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superi...
INDIAN PROVERB There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior...
HINDU PROVERB There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superio...
SAMUEL JOHNSON While a narcissist may admit he is a narcissist he will never admit to feeling superior because to h...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL Nature is superior to human being.
MD. MUJIB ULLAH True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
EDWARD YOUNG And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Pa...
BIBLE Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to...
ELIJAH WOOD Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Valor consists in the power of self recovery.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It shew'd discretion, the best part of valor.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility ...
WHITNEY YOUNG If all the world were just, there would be no need of valor
PLUTARCH Y por qué es necesario tener valor? —le preguntó el gato con tono de indiferencia.
—Porqu...
NEIL GAIMAN But think about it. We’ve tried for over twenty years to do everything right, to save our money, t...
RICH HOFFMAN A coward's heart is no prize, but the man of valor deserves his shining helmet.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity
OVID Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
PLUTARCH Fealty with love, Valor with honor, oathbreaking with vengeance.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN True valor lies half way between cowardice and rashness.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA No one man is superior to the game.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI No one man is superior to the game.
A BARTLETT GIAMATTI This is far superior to where we were.
KEVIN BROWN Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive your...
SHERRILYN KENYON Its hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots.
SUZANNE COLLINS My sister said Mary Elizabeth is suffering from low self-esteem, but I told her that she said the sa...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.
DAVID MALLET Real scratching is superior to masturbation, in my opinion.
SAMUEL BECKETT It is better to be supportive than be superior.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It is a brave act to despise death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the trues...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
FARRAH FAWCETT He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON —¿Y por qué es necesario tener valor? —le preguntó el gato con tono de indiferencia.
—...
NEIL GAIMAN Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?
VIRGIL Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?
VERGIL Uma palavra feita sobre coação não tem valor- vou ser livre.
PHILIPPA GREGORY Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
VIRGIL Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.
WALTER LANG Death is superior to life because,death always kills life.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) This is really going to change the character of Superior,
DAVE ROSS The knowledge of course and effect is superior to miracles.
SUNDAY ADELAJA For how long is there a superior? For as long as one makes mistakes. When mistakes cease to happen, ...
DADA BHAGWAN Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
TACITUS Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER When valor preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If all men were just, there would be no need of valor
AGESILAUS Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
SERGE GAINSBOURG This is Seattle. We're supposed to have superior taste.
MARIA SEMPLE It is irrelevant to love and understand something you feel superior to.
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OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. [Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudan...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Embarrassment of riches. [Fr., Embarras des richesse.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. [Lat., Effodiuntur opes irritamenta malo...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is t...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's ...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves. ...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit. [Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiu...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one do? According to men's habits an...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Charity begins at home. [Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and w...
VIRGIL PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO To wish for death is a coward's part. [Lat., Timidi est optare necem.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. [Lat., Q...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) You are harping on the same string. [Lat., Cantilenam candem canis.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. [Lat., Nitimur in veti...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) The cause is hidden, but the result is known. [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first. [Lat., Coepisti mel...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot. ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Fare ye well, and give us your applause. [Lat., Vos valete et plaudite.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) There is no small pleasure in sweet water. [Lat., Est in aqua dulci non invidiosa voluptas.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. [Lat., Omnia s...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. [Lat.,...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) The least strength suffices to break what is bruised. [Lat., Minimae vires frangere quassa valent....
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inem...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) God himself favors the brave. [Lat., Audentes deus ipse juvat.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fres...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Then the Omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. [Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare colu...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage. [Lat., Continua messe senescit ager.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial. [Lat., Perfer et obdura; d...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [L...
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OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris ...
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OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Like fragile ice anger passes away in time. [Lat., Ut fragilis glacies interit ira mora.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways. [Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]
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OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts. [Lat., Judicis officium est ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis igno...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late. [Lat., Prisca j...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. [Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi e...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Knavery's now its own reward. [Lat., His nunc praemium est qui recta prava faciunt.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Habit had made the custom. [Lat., Morem fecerat usus.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall? [Lat., Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si c...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair a...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain. [Lat., Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis fa...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains. [Lat., Factum abiit; monumenta manent.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. [Lat., Bene qui latuit, bene vixit.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) The nets not stretched to catch the hawk, Or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those Who do ...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. [Lat., Nos fragili vastum ligno sulcavimus aequ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming. [Lat., Qui sustinet hamos, ...
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TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.) [Lat., Ne laterum laves.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod vis...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Those graceful groves that shade the plain, Where Tiber rolls majestic to the main, And flatte...
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STATIUS (PUBLIUS PAPANIUS STATIUS) Let those love now, who never loved before, Let those who always loved, now love the more.
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OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile...
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Often a silent face has voice and words. [Lat., Saepe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet.]
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OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Take time: much may be gained by patience.
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OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because...
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OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Pleasure is often the introduction to pain.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer. [Lat., Ingenium magni detractat livor Homeri.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. [Lat., Summa petit livor: pe...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead. [Lat., Pascitur in vivis livor; post fata...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts. [...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails.
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and that they can not be repelled. [L...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Bear and forbear.
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers. [Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation. [Lat., Aere non certo corpora languor habet.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion. [Lat., Dulcia non ferimus; succo renov...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere man...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) The brave find a home in every land. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself;...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature. [Lat., Ars fit ubi a teneris...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. [Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue. [Lat., Quod sequitur, fugio; quod fugit, usque sequ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) The love of glory gives an immense stimulus. [Lat., Immensum gloria calcar habet.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Our native land attracts us with some mysterious charm, never to be forgotten.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO No herb can remedy the anguish of love.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fle...
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Make good use of your time, it flies fast.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.
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