Top 100 Quotes About Restraint

#1. Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation - the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.

Peter De Vries

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#2. Restraint: not just for sex anymore.

Darynda Jones

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#3. Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one.

Will Durant

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#4. Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Daniel Webster

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#5. You're a Capricorn to the core. Organized, loves structure, not driven by impulse, a master of restraint.

James Patterson

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#6. Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#7. Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously, I lost track of what I was taught.

Tiger Woods

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#8. Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals ...

Emma Goldman

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#9. I'm not going to say I told you so" is pretty much the same thing as saying "I told you so." Except worse because you're saying "I told you so" and congratulating yourself for your restraint in not saying what you totally just said.

Jenny Lawson

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#10. He struggled with himself, too. I saw it
I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.

Joseph Conrad

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#11. Fences can be prisons, in a way. They're necessary for those incapable of learning restraint, but they diminish life.

Tamera Alexander

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#12. She'd discovered the beginnings of her adult person, her preference for lucidity, prudence, responsibility, and restraint. Tranquility could be eked from boredom, results from hard work.

V.S. Kemanis

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#13. I knew these elements were intended for me and me alone. There were no endearments, but I understood in part because of this restraint. He knew how much I hated words like love.

Jeff VanderMeer

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#14. Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Seneca The Younger

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#15. The sexual tension between them was becoming a tangible thing that was growing everyday to the point that it could explode and probably take out a city with the blast.

Victoria Darkins

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#16. Free speech is a restraint on government; not an incitement to the citizen.

David McCullough

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#17. Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.

James E. Faust

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#18. Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Henry Adams

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#19. The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint.

Peter Atkins

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#20. Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.

Breyten Breytenbach

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#21. A laconic Texas lawmaker declined to use his considerable influence to intervene in a loud dispute between his colleagues. When asked why not, he said, They're not voting. If they're not voting, they're not passing any laws. If they're not passing any laws, they're not hurting anybody.

Robert A. Caro

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#22. I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#23. To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

Georges Bataille

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#24. All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#25. She has always thought that kindness was an active thing. But the not doing of something, an act of restraint -- could that be kindness too?

Jessie Burton

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#26. I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather.

Margaret Cho

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#27. In a film muddied by fictional detail, the new Spielberg production 'Fifth Estate's portrayal of the 'Guardian's work with Wikileaks is accurate in describing the running dispute between journalists who wanted to redact documents to make them safe and Julian Assange, who wanted no such restraint.

Nick Davies

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#28. In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.

R.C. Sproul

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#29. There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

George Mason

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#30. Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.

Wendell Berry

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#31. Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.

Danielle Trussoni

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#32. Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.

Ilona Andrews

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#33. Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.

Pythagoras

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#34. Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.

Paul Tournier

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#35. Half of love is restraint. Patience and respect. Don't waste your time on the unworthy.

Aleksandr Voinov

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#36. Restraint, soberness, the matured thought, the unselfish act, they are necessities of the barbarous state, the life of dangers. Dourness is man's tribute to unconquered nature.

H.G.Wells

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#37. I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

Rodney King

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#38. Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

Marya Mannes

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#39. It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very controlled life and a happy life, and of course, be dedicated to the cause.

Frederick Lenz

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#40. People who know no self-restraint lead stormy and disordered lives, passing their time in a state of fear commensurate with the injuries they do to others, never able to relax.

Seneca.

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#41. I had no way of knowing where it began or where it ended. Only that it flowed without restraint.

Shin Kyung-sook

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#42. Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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#43. Have you heard about the women who stabbed her husband 37 times? I admire her restraint.

Roseanne Barr

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#44. Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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#45. The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.

Osbert Sitwell

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#46. Silence.
Give me control. Give me calm. Give me restraint.
Flash.

Chuck Palahniuk

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#47. From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty
As surfeit is the father of much fast,
So every scope of the immoderate use
Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, -
Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, -
A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.

William Shakespeare

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#48. Nearly every aspect of life was subject to some measure of legal restraint. At a local level, you could be fined for letting your ducks wander in the road, for misappropriating town gravel, for having a guest in your house without a permit from the local bailiff.

Bill Bryson

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#49. Ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything. 1) Does this need to be said 2) "Does this need to be said by me? 3) Does this need to be said by me now?

Craig Ferguson

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#50. Products produced cheaply create ugly work lives and ugly households and ugly communities. Profits produced quickly cannot purchase patience and care. Patience is beautiful. Restraint and care are beautiful. Peace is beautiful. A small, diversified organic farm is beautiful.

Woody Tasch

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#51. I tend to write about towns because that's what I remember best. You can put a boundary on the number of characters you insert into a small town. I tend to create a lot of characters, so this is a sort of restraint on the character building I do for a novel.

Tom Drury

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#52. ...and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common-place and mistaken notions.

Jane Austen

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#53. The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen"
which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

Frank Herbert

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#54. To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

Maimonides

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#55. The essential passions of the heart have found a better soil in which it may attain it's maturity; remain under less restraint and extended into it's natural state

David Hume

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#56. The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

Steven James

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#57. Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

James Russell Lowell

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#58. And just as there was a cleanness about his body, so there was a cleanness in his thinking. Men coming to his blacksmith shop to talk and listen dropped their cursing for a while, not from any kind of restraint but automatically, as though this were not the place for it.

John Steinbeck

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#59. Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you need to - restraint is something I admire. At the end of the day, it is still a battle between good vs. crap.

David Droga

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#60. An introverted person obviously affected by her past. Lived alone, had no sex life, had difficulty getting close to people. Kept her distance, and when she let loose there was no restraint. She chose a stranger for a lover.

Stieg Larsson

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#61. Honor sometimes means doing something very unwise. Behaving like an idiot is better than dishonor. To this day I blush for having chosen sensible restraint over common decency.

Amelie Nothomb

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#62. It was with extreme difficulty that Nipper, the black-eyed, who looked on steadfastly, contained herself at this crisis, and, until the subsequent departure of Mrs. Chick. But the nursery being at length free of visitors, she made herself some recompense for her late restraint.

Charles Dickens

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#63. Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.

William Howard Taft

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#64. Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

Horace

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#65. No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty
a sphere, by the way, always large enough for the full exercise of his powers and the supply of all his legitimate wants.

J.G. Holland

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#66. Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well ...

James Forrestal

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#67. Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.

William Hazlitt

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#68. What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

Ursula K. Le Guin

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#69. He wrapped one arm around her waist, and cupped her nape with his other hand. This time when he kissed her there was none of the restraint she'd seen in the past. It was like kissing an inferno.
Hot, breathless, so overwhelming that her senses shattered.

Maya Banks

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#70. Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#71. Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.

Robert A. Heinlein

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#72. What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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#73. In an information industry the cost of monopoly must not be measured in dollars alone, but also in its effect on the economy of ideas and images, the restraint of which can ultimately amount to censorship.

Tim Wu

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#74. We shall see how the counsels of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger; how the middle course adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life may be found to lead direct to the bull's-eye of disaster.

Winston S. Churchill

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#75. The hardest thing for me is restraint.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

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#76. Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it renders everything asunder, the wall, and the bonds and its very self.

Kafka, Franz

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#77. Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Orson Scott Card

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#78. Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.

Thiruvalluvar

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#79. A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself to such base vocabulary.

Ari Marmell

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#80. Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It only kills the brain cells that contain good sense, shame, embarrassment, and restraint.

P. J. O'Rourke

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#81. He believed that great harvests came from arid sources, pleasure from restraint," she noted. "He knew the equations that most people didn't know: Things led to their opposites.

Walter Isaacson

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#82. Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.

Cathleen Schine

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#83. With her words, the world could spin again. It took great restraint to not unfurl my wings and fly Abby around the mountain, pronouncing to anyone with ears that she loved me. Abigail Miller loved me.

Ashlan Thomas

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#84. I will tell just one more story ... and I will tell it with the humility and restraint of him who knows from the start that his theme is desperate, his means feeble, and the trade of clothing facts in words is bound by its very nature to fail.

Primo Levi

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#85. It has always been a mark of decaying civilizations to become obsessed with sex. When people lose their way, their purpose, their will, and their goals, as well as their faith ... they go "a whoring." It is a form of diversion that requires no thought, no character, and no restraint.

Billy Graham

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#86. When government gets too big, freedom is lost. Government is supposed to be the servant. But when a government can tax the people with no limit or restraint on what the government can take, then the government has become the master.

Ronald Reagan

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#87. Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility.

Todd Young

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#88. In temperate countries, where man had succeeded in putting most forms of nature save his own under a reasonable degree of restraint, the status of the triffid was thus made quite clear. But in the tropics, particularly in the dense forest areas, they quickly became a scourge.

John Wyndham

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#89. We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond comprehension. Remove societal restraints on some evils and one can expect the demons to be freed to conduct other evil acts.

Cal Thomas

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#90. Asceticism, also called ascesis, is the practice of rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint and is performed as a spiritual discipline. Like

Randi Fredricks, Ph.D.

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#91. Many aspects of the human condition are beautiful and many others are vile. Betrayal and personal agony represent a maddening part of being human. A person can maintain personal dignity by exercising restraint, remaining true to their conscience, and preserving under difficult conditions.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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#92. When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#93. Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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#94. The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.

Henry Kissinger

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#95. It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#96. And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.

Algernon H. Blackwood

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#97. I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

Mary MacLane

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#98. Do you usually show so little self restraint, special agent? Or do you ask all the girls to marry you?

Tate Hallaway

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#99. Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted to tell her that, but this was the thing with coaching: you had to step back at exactly the moment you ached to step forward.

Chris Cleave

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#100. You can see how he changed on the surface. But at the core of it all, I think Superman has remained the same - a character with incredible powers but almost superhuman humility and restraint.

Jim Lee

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