Top 100 To Wait Quotes

#1. To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.

Helena Blavatsky

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#2. We got trapped in the limo during a thunderstorm on our way to the reception. The bride wanted to wait for the storm to pass before they went in. It was actually an awesome chance for the couple to have some quiet time together after their ceremony.

Julie Roberts

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#3. Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped.

Cathleen Schine

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#4. The merger of globalization and the I.T. revolution means new products are being phased in and out so fast that companies cannot afford to wait until the end of the year to figure out whether a team leader is doing a good job.

Thomas Friedman

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#5. To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.
Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence.

Anna Kavan

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#6. Because sometimes it doesn't help to chase after the thing you want. No. Sometimes you have to wait, however long it takes, until what you want most comes to you.

Eleanor Herman

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#7. There is no 'right' way to begin a novel, but for me, plot has to wait. The character comes first.

Susan Isaacs

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#8. Modernity has created more problems than it is capable of solving. Millions of people are now condemned to wait endlessly for their redemption through modernity.

Pankaj Mishra

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#9. We do not have to wait for the hereafter - it is now that we are one with Christ.

Catherine Doherty

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#10. The tour life is real tough on a marriage. To the young guy who is just getting his PGA Tour card and is in a serious relationship, my advice is to wait three years before getting married.

Boo Weekley

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#11. No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.

W.H. Davies

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#12. Learn To Labor and to 'WAIT

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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#13. Movies now, you can watch a trailer for a movie on TV now and you're not sure if it's a video game or a movie. You have to wait till the end of it to see, oh, I see, those actors are in it, so that one's a movie. Oftentimes, it's based on a video game.

Billy Bob Thornton

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#14. You don't have to chase around after creatures, Pismire had said. You watch them for long enough, and then you'll find the place to wait and they'll come to you. There's nearly always a better way of doing something.

Terry Pratchett

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#15. Growing up, Santa Claus would cover the presents with a white blanket, so when we'd wake up Christmas morning, we had to wait for my dad to do the big reveal of all the presents Santa brought.

Martina Mcbride

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#16. People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.

John Darnielle

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#17. The boys went off to fight with swords while girls had to learn dog barks and owl hoots. No wonder princesses were so impotent in fairy tales, she thought. If all they could do was smile, stand straight, and speak to squirrels, then what choice did they have but to wait for a boy to rescue them?

Soman Chainani

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#18. Operation: Sexy Time will just have to wait for another day. I

Ruby Dixon

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#19. People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

Terry Pratchett

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#20. If you want something you have to wait.

Lemar

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#21. It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.

John Ashcroft

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#22. Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either.

Erich Maria Remarque

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#23. Can I get a fork?; There were no utensils in medieval times, hence there ARE no utensils AT Medieval Times- would you like a refill on your Pepsi? ;So there were no utensils but there was Pepsi?; Dude, I got a lot of tables to wait

Matthew Broderick

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#24. Un-fucking-believable," Mark muttered. "In a country where they let embryos drive cars, I have to wait until I'm twenty-one to buy alcohol. What sort of place lets you drive and vote and fuck before it lets you drink a beer?" He glared at Deacon accusingly. "Well?

Lisa Henry

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#25. Most people would prefer to wait, wait, and wait until the perfect time has come for them to act. There is no such thing as the perfect time.

Farshad Asl

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#26. Is it painful to be the person who waits? Or is it more painful to be the person who makes others wait? Either way, there's no need to wait anymore. That's what is most painful. - Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai

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#27. The great thing about making cognac is that it teaches you above everything else to wait-man proposes, but time and God and the seasons have got to be on your side.

Jean Monnet

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#28. So all I've got to wait for now is Snape to steal the Stone," Harry went on feverishly, "then Voldemort will be able to come and finish me off. ... Well, I suppose Bane'll be happy.

J.K. Rowling

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#29. She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.

Libba Bray

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#30. Voiceover excited me and terrified me. I thought I was going to be really bad at it. It was so freeing and fun to not have to wait for 10 minutes between every setup. They just throw you a direction, and you just say it.

Anna Kendrick

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#31. Virtue runs before the muse,
and defies her skill;
she is rapt and doth refuse
to wait a painter's will.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#32. To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

Robert Falcon Scott

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#33. That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble - leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup until you could write and while you were waiting you went crazy, and while you were going crazy you drank and the more you drank the crazier you got.

Charles Bukowski

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#34. At the sight of Day, her whole face lit up.
"Mikhail! You came! Barbara said you would, but that we might have to wait for hell to freeze over first. Did it?

Deborah Blake

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#35. Well, anybody can be a straight man if he hears well. You just have to wait for laughs. A straight man just repeats the questions and the comedian gets the laughs and you just wait for them and don't let them die completely at the tail end of the laugh.

George Burns

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#36. In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

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#37. Most of the soloists at Birdland had to wait for Parker's next record in order to find out what to play next. What will they do now?

Charles Mingus

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#38. People never really died. They only went on to a better place, to wait a while for their loved ones to join them. And then once more they went back to the world, in the same way they had arrived the first time around.

V.C. Andrews

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#39. Journalism is not easy. It's the first rough draft. I don't think you need to wait around until you have the definitive thing. You record what's there; don't delude yourself that this is the ultimate historical view.

Harold Evans

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#40. No wonder princesses were so impotent in fairy tales, she thought. If all they could do was smile, stand straight, and speak to squirrels, then what choice did they have but to wait for a boy to rescue them? Princess

Soman Chainani

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#41. I told you to wait," he snapped at Alec.
"Don't you ever do anything I tell you to?"
"Technically you didn't actually say anything,"
Clary said. "You just gestured."
"Gesturing counts," Jace said. "I gesture
very expressively.

Cassandra Clare

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#42. When the future is fogged and ahead lays opportunity but risk, it is better to tread a careful path through the uncertainty than to wait for the mist to clear, if it ever does.

Anonymous

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#43. Better to wait actively than passively.

Stephen L. Carter

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#44. Lord, help me to wait upon my Master. Let me leave all idea of honour to the hour when thou thyself shalt honour me. May thy Holy Spirit make me a lowly and patient worker and waiter!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#45. I don't want to wait until something happens to see who my friends are.

Bryant Gumbel

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#46. I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

Pope Francis

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#47. When the rain finally abates, I decide to wait out the night instead of trying to climb in the dark.

Rae Carson

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#48. My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?

Bob Hope

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#49. The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.

Gillian Flynn

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#50. I've wanted to go out with you from the first moment I saw you. I just had to wait until you were ready.

Nicholas Sparks

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#51. There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn't have what you needed on Thanksgiving, you were pretty much going to have to wait until Friday. Not anymore!

Monica Johnson

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#52. Ask her to wait a moment I am almost done.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

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#53. It's a good thing you're an aging orphan," he murmured, gently pushing the hair away from her face. "I don't have to wait around to get anyone's permission."
"Permission for what, you rat bastard?" she said.
"Such language, dragon. I'm afraid you're going to have to marry me.

Anne Stuart

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#54. When she didn't continue, he shrugged. Just let me bring you coffee. I want to wait on you.
Makes me happy

J.R. Ward

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#55. In a very real sense, Jews have to believe that Christians have missed the point about how to wait for the end, and Christians have to believe something quite similar about the Jews.

David Novak

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#56. There is a time and place for everything, you just have to wait for the right moment. Once it comes it will be the most beautiful and perfect thing possible!

Gloria Tesch

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#57. The Clowns were Hungry. They did not want to wait to be fed. But when they sated there hunger, they wanted it to be in the right way, for the right reasons. They could wait . The Grace Keepers

Kristy Logan

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#58. You don't have to wait till your party's in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.

William J. Clinton

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#59. But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours
that's another matter.

H.G.Wells

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#60. We have none of us long to wait for Death. Patience, patience! He'll be here soon enough for us all.

Charles Dickens

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#61. 90% of life is showing up. I'm staying home to wait for the other 10%.

Brian Spellman

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#62. If the cherry trees had to wait for understanding they'd never blossom.

Marty Rubin

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#63. The world's not going to wait for you. If you have an idea, put some effort behind it and get it out there.

Robert Kiyosaki

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#64. Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.

William Barclay

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#65. My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The only thing they told me was that I had to wait until I was 18 so I could get my education out of the way first.

Rumer Willis

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#66. I'd love to do films, but I'd feel bad in my gut if I did anything just for the money. I want to wait for something I'm really passionate about, even if I don't work for a year.

Jessica Raine

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#67. Rich people, they stay out of jail not just because they have more money but because they grew up in a culture where they're educated by people to say, "I don't have to talk to the cops. If I get arrested, I'm not going to say a word to them. I'm just going to wait until my family lawyer gets here".

Immortal Technique

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#68. If the audience knows you can be funny when you want to be, they will be willing to wait for that payoff.

Bill Cosby

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#69. Love yourself too much to beg, hold yourself to higher standards than to chase, and value your worth too much to "wait" for someone to love you as you deserve to be loved.

Karlicia Lewis

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#70. I always think, if I were an editor, and I was invited to a show, and I would have to wait for 45 minutes in the dark or in the cold or in the heat, maybe I would like to have a fresh drink or a piece of chocolate.

Alber Elbaz

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#71. I want you Layla. And if I have to wait ten years for you to be ready I will. We can take this as slow as you want and there's no pressure. I just want to be with you

Marie Coulson

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#72. Think not that when thou art dry and darksom in the presence of God, with faith and silence, that thou do'st nothing, that thou losest time, and that thou are idle, because not to wait on God, according to the saying of St. Bernard (Tom.5.in Fract. de vit. solit.c.8.p. 90.), is the greatest idleness

Miguel De Molinos

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#73. It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.

Ted Sarandos

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#74. I want to know living love. And I don't want to wait for it.

Ellen Hopkins

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#75. To wait an Hour - is long
If Love be just beyond
To wait Eternity - is short
If Love reward the end -

Emily Dickinson

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#76. I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.

Ace Frehley

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#77. In China, because China is gaining wealth, rice consumption is way down. Rice is a poor person's food, and they're eating less of it. To wait in line at a fast food chain is cool. And they haven't historically had weight problems. So they don't have this culture of, "I need to lose weight."

Neal Barnard

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#78. I'm humble enough to wait and just chill. I'm having fun just working with these good people, man.

Mike Epps

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#79. His gaze grew wistful, and he looked so young. 'I don't want to put things off, even though we haven't been together a really long time. I don't want to wait
you never know what can ... Look. I adore you, and I want a home. Again. With you.

Alice Clayton

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#80. 25It is good. The Eternal One is good to those who expect Him, to those who seek Him wholeheartedly. 26It is good to wait quietly for the Eternal to make things right again. 27It is good to have to deal with restraint and burdens when young.

Anonymous

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#81. I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined, but I'm not patient.

Douglas Coupland

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#82. He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.

Sigmund Freud

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#83. People want to imagine that I have this amazing life. That I never change nappies, unload the dishwasher or have to wait in for the plumber, and that's OK, but the reality is I do do all these things!

Jade Jagger

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#84. The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.

David Tepper

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#85. The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.

Patricia Wentworth

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#86. I have patient to wait for what I desire.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#87. My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them they have to wait until they're 18; I won't take them to auditions.

Elizabeth Perkins

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#88. Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait

Robert Hunter

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#89. Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

Joyce Meyer

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#90. I was like, I don't know if I can hold that promise [to wait until marriage to have sex] because this guy at camp is really cute. Sex wasn't talked about in my home, but I was a very curious young girl.

Katy Perry

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#91. I had always wanted to do a collection of cartoons, but you have to wait until someone is actually interested.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

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#92. Never wait for fitter time or place to talk to Him. To wait till thou go to church or to thy closet is to make Him wait. He will listen as thou walkest.

George MacDonald

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#93. You need to understand that love isn't all romance and flowers and great sex, Violet." I raised my eyebrows, but she didn't stop. "Real love takes work and effort and time. Real love is willing to wait while you sort your shit out, and is still there once you get your head on straight.

Brooke Moss

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#94. We left because some people choose to wait for news and others make their own.

Josh Malerman

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#95. I started with one squirt but didn't think that was enough, so I ended up accidentally spraying on six more. I went back to the beach to wait, smelling like a department-store tragedy.

T.J. Klune

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#96. There is time for everything. As you sow, may you have the patience to wait for your harvest.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#97. I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

Zosia Mamet

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#98. Learn to wait on God.

Joyce Meyer

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#99. If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.

Robert A. Heinlein

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#100. That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.

Walter Dean Myers

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