Top 100 Quotes About Underground

#1. The pipeline would run from Canada to the Gulf Coast. It'll be the biggest underground structure leading into the U.S. Then people in Mexico said, 'Eh ... second biggest.'

Jimmy Fallon

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#2. Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process.

Claes Oldenburg

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#3. I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.

Richard Wurmbrand

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#4. New York had pushed and bent and bullied, driving me underground to sort out the madness and sculpt my Being with my own hands in self-discovery on its cold pottery wheel and in the white heat of its kiln. The City enabled me to learn who I really was, as a pixelated man and member of Humanity.

David B. Lentz

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#5. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#6. New York was the last place that my movies caught on. I didn't make underground movies in New York, and in the 1960s, they were very snobby about that, because the whole scene was here.

John Waters

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#7. Artists have so much more control of their futures - they don't need to rely so much on major labels or big companies to help them. You have artists like Skrillex that can dominate so much that he gets 5 Grammy nominees, and he's clearly an underground artist.

Steve Aoki

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#8. Every great day has a story and a song!

Faith Reese Martin

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#9. Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur

Axwell

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#10. I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward, The tight grains parting at last. When sprouts break out, Slippery as fish, I quail, lean to beginnings, sheath-wet.

Theodore Roethke

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#11. I don't want to say Gray Davis is on the run, but today he released an audiotape on the Al Jazeera network from his underground bunker somewhere in the Sacramento area.

Jay Leno

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#12. There used to be a middle way, too, when her attention was focused but vast, and time felt like a limpid pool, ringed by sunlit ferns. An underground spring fed the pool from deep below, creating a gentle current of words that bubbled up, while on the surface, breezes shimmered and played.

Ruth Ozeki

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#13. Underground, the story continued.

Richard Adams

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#14. I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality.

Tony Hawk

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#15. What, exactly, did Sjahrir do for the Republic? ... His entire underground effort can be summed up by saying that he sat quietly and safely away somewhere listening to a clandestine radio.

Sukarno

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#16. I have a huge underground following on the web.

John McAfee

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#17. I never tried to be Jay Z or Big Poppa,
I'm underground like them dead children buried in Gaza

Immortal Technique

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#18. London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases ... that was very interesting.

Ruth Rendell

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#19. And between us now there is this continual underground struggle over something trivial and nebulous that won't abate and has lasted nearly as long as the two of us have known each other. I love you.

Joseph Heller

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#20. The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence

Francisco Varela

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#21. Infancy is irretrievable. Its memories live underground. To what extent they return by stealth or are triggered by various catalysts remains an ongoing question.

Siri Hustvedt

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#22. It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.

Jamaica Kincaid

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#23. The abuser knows where you work. Even if a woman goes underground at night, the abuser knows where to find her during the day.

Gordon Campbell

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#24. People who brag of their ancestors are like root vegetables. All their importance is underground.

Winston Graham

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#25. But until we get rid of that shame, then people are going to stay underground, they are not going to get tested, and we're facing an uphill battle [with AIDS].

Elton John

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#26. I have been working. I've been blessed to have shared a movie in the north of Chile called 'The 33,' with Gabriel Byrne and Juliette Binoche and Antonio Banderas, which is the beautiful story of the miners (trapped underground for 69 days in 2010). And then, this incredible, epic story came my way.

Cote De Pablo

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#27. I'd rather be a criminal underground than a secret police.

Cory Doctorow

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#28. I've always been ahead of the curve when it came to trying new stuff in the underground scene.

Kid Cudi

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#29. Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground.' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places, the hidden histories.

Mary Harron

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#30. I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

Harriet Tubman

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#31. I wished Dean and Carlo were there - then I realized they'd be out of place and unhappy. They were like the man with the dungeon stone and the gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining. The

Jack Kerouac

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#32. Using predictive models from engineering and public health, designers will plan safer, healthier cities that could allow us to survive natural disasters, pandemics, and even a radiation calamity that drives us underground.

Annalee Newitz

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#33. It is important that carbon storage is carefully regulated, that the process is transparent to the public, and that there is a clear accounting of what happened to the CO2. This is particularly true of underground storage, where there is always a small chance that pressurized CO2 could escape.

Klaus Lackner

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#34. Of course, I'm a dancer. Dancing grabbed me from the start and I have was never afraid to do it. With out dance I wouldn't be singing. I want to expose people to the underground dance scene through music.

Jillian Hervey

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#35. I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life.

Lady Gaga

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#36. Girl they love me like I'm Prince, like the new kid with the crown. Bunch of underground kings, thought you knew how we get down.

Drake

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#37. Gus slowed in the darkened underground tunnel and started to unlock

Guillermo Del Toro

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#38. FACT: In 1991, a document was locked in the safe of the director of the CIA. The document is still there today. Its cryptic text includes references to an ancient portal and an unknown location underground. The document also contains the phrase "It's buried out there somewhere.

Dan Brown

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#39. Hell is a conspiracy, and the first requirement of a conspiracy is that it remain underground.

Richard F. Lovelace

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#40. I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

Cory Doctorow

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#41. An underground hit didn't make any money and it cost a dollar to get in.

John Waters

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#42. The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.

Russell Simmons

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#43. Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

John Charles Polanyi

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#44. The saxophone does not speak that language. The saxophone speaks the language of the underground, the jaded melancholy of the half-light - grimy and sexy and sweaty and hard. It is the language of orphans and bastards and whores.

Eleanor Catton

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#45. Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted,
Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets.
Where were you the day hip-hop died?
Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?

Talib Kweli

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#46. Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.

Brian Eno

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#47. The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

Brian Eno

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#48. He had heard it sure enough, wailing underground in clubs and speakeasies, all through Prohibition, hot, polyphonic, toe-tapping, full of syncopated rhythms and bent, naughty notes - perfect for small and secret spaces.

Nicole Mones

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#49. I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.

John Mayer

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#50. It's hard to imagine the whole punk movement without The Velvet Underground. I toured with them when they did their reunion tour, and no one sounds like that; they are a very unique-sounding band.

Dean Wareham

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#51. You have to look at fashion from the perspective of high end editors and publications. Read all the magazines
commercial and underground
and your voice will evolve from what you see there.

Thakoon Panichgul

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#52. If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games? And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol.

Suzanne Collins

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#53. I feel like Harriet Tubman, except I am trying to free people through underground music, to free themselves creatively and inspirationally.

Janelle Monae

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#54. A freezing cold underground river. A dark cave lit by ghosts. A man too stupid to realize you loved him. This is what you want?"
"All of it. Especially the very stupid man.

Molly Ringle

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#55. A typical day in the Senate requires several trips to the Senate floor and back, although the journey is usually underground so that on some days, once I arrive at work, I never see the sun.

Jim Webb

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#56. I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.

Neil Gaiman

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#57. So that left me. To save my hatchlings and my underground, even if I couldn't be there anymore.

Julie Kagawa

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#58. Desert strategies are useful: In times of drought, pull your resources inward; when water is scarce, find moisture in seeds; to stay strong and supple, send a taproot down deep; run when required, hide when necessary; when hot go underground; do not fear darkness, it's where one comes alive.

Terry Tempest Williams

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#59. Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

Terry Pratchett

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#60. Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Miguel De Cervantes

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#61. Sorrow is long
when love has vanished underground.

Euripides

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#62. My debauchery I undertook solitarily, by night, covertly, fearfully, filthily, with a shame that would not abandon me ... I was then already bearing the underground in my soul.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#63. Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground.

William James

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#64. Drugs, gambling, and prostitution are the Big Three underground 'moneymakers' in consensual crime. There would be, however, significant boosts to the economy if the stigma attached to the other consensual crimes were eliminated through legalization.

Peter McWilliams

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#65. In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.

Herbie Hancock

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#66. He had drowned the boy underground with his own hands, but his twisted mind still had the nerve to feel grief over the loss. How horrifying.

Otsuichi

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#67. Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#68. Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

G.K. Chesterton

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#69. There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#70. While it is relatively easy to recognize the perennial grasses and seed-eating sparrows as characteristic of meadows, the ecosystems exist in their fullest sense underground. What we see aboveground is only the outer margin of an ecosystem that explodes in intricacy and life below.

Amy Seidl

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#71. Our ancestors move along with us, in underground rivers and springs too deep for chaos to reach.

Wally Lamb

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#72. I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.

Lester Bangs

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#73. And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.

C.S. Lewis

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#74. It seemed to him that there was a scarlet thread running through the fabric of life, one that joined events across the years, piercing human hearts and plunging underground, only to reemerge without warning, a thread connecting lives and sometimes dates.

Douglas Wynne

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#75. When a forty-minute swim in the Hendrix's underground pool failed to dispel either the longing for Miriam Bancroft's torrid company or the Merge Nine hangover, I did the only thing I felt equipped for. I ordered painkillers from room service, and went shopping.

Richard K. Morgan

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#76. Don't want to discuss it, I think it's time for a change You may get disgusted, some think that I'm strange In that case I'll go underground, get some heavy rest Never have to worry, about what is worst and what is best.

Van Morrison

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#77. When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.

Lykke Li

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#78. Mixtape legend, underground kings ... Looking for the right way to do the wrong things

Drake

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#79. The underground scene is still a cool way to meet a lot of cool people, see a lot of interesting bands and get a lot of food for thought, but people have to remain curious and get their brain activity food from other places besides punk.

Jello Biafra

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#80. Roarke "I'll drop you." Eve "No, better I catch a cab or take the underground. This guy sees me show up in a hot car with a fancy piece behind the wheel, he's not going to like me." Roarke "You know how I love being referred. to as your fancy piece." Eve "Sometimes you're my love muffin.

Nora Roberts

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#81. I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

Jonathan Lethem

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#82. For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf.
For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core of the Earth.
The exhale's volcanic, the inhale is seismic ...

J-Live

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#83. There will always be an underground.

Chuck Palahniuk

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#84. God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.

Meister Eckhart

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#85. I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.

Anthony Bourdain

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#86. Out of every 10 scripts I get sent, seven are fairly generic about an American guy who gets the girl and is involved in underground espionage activity.

Jim Sturgess

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#87. In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.

Ma Jian

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#88. I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.

John Ashbery

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#89. The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us.

James Garbarino

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#90. I'm very underground.

Eric Bogosian

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#91. Dear Artie: "The young fellow has disappeared into a dead end. I think the long-necked bastard planned to wind up in Paris and sent him there but he may also have used the underground railroad. Ask your round-heeled contact. Maybe you can find more than I could. "Roy

John Pearce

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#92. It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me

Lynda Barry

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#93. So much urgent and lifelike love went rumbling around underground and died there, never got expressed at all, so let some errant inconvenient attraction have its way. There was so little time

Lorrie Moore

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#94. Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.

Bahman Ghobadi

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#95. Grover shuddered. "Satyrs hate going underground. No searcher would ever try going in that place. No flowers. No sunshine. No coffee shops!

Rick Riordan

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#96. Sometimes I rode north to the big prairie-dog town to watch the brown earth-owls fly home in the late afternoon and go down to their nests underground with the dogs.

Willa Cather

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#97. I was going to be a musician, no matter what it took. I supported myself with blue-collared jobs so I could write music and be in a band and play shows. I even got into an underground art scene. I was going to do whatever.

Chris Cornell

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#98. Sex is like an atom bomb. A potent weapon which fascinates and frightens. We're afraid to let it loose, yet we all have our finger on the button.
Zeena Schreck, Cuir Underground: Sado-Magic for Satan Interview, 1998

Zeena Schreck

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#99. You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.

Marianne Williamson

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#100. To fall in love twice, with the same person, you need to grow another heart. That's all I do in my secret underground laboratory at night...

Will Advise

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