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A World That Begins To Witness The Rebirth Of Trust Among Nations Can Find Its Way To A Peace That Is Neither Partial Nor Punitive. With All Who Will Work In Good Faith Toward Such A Peace, We Are Ready, With Renewed Resolve, To Strive To Redeem The Near-lost Hopes Of Our Day.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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A World That Begins To Witness The Rebirth Of Trust Among Nations Can Find Its Way To A Peace That Is Neither Partial Nor Punitive. With All Who Will Work In Good Faith Toward Such A Peace, We Are Ready, With Renewed Resolve, To Strive To Redeem The Near-lost Hopes Of Our Day.

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The Supreme Quality For Leadership Is Unquestionably Integrity. Without It, No Real Success Is Possible, No Matter Whether It Is On A Section Gang, A Football Field, In An Army, Or In An Office.

It Is Well For Us To Pause, To Acknowledge Our Debt To Those Who Paid So Large A Share Of Freedom's Price.

We Have Heard Much Of The Phrase, Peace And Friendship. This Phrase, In Expressing The Aspiration Of America, Is Not Complete. We Should Say Instead, Peace And Friendship, In Freedom. This, I Think, Is America's Real Message To The Rest Of The World.

Personal Prayer, It Seems To Me, Is One Of The Simplest Necessities Of Life, As Basic To The Individual As Sunshine, Food And Water-and At Times, Of Course, More So. By Prayer I Mean An Effort To Get In Touch With The Infinite. We Know That Our Prayers Are Imperfect. Of Course They Are. We Are Imperfect Human Beings. A Thousand Experiences Have Convinced Me Beyond Room Of Doubt That Prayer Multiplies The Strength Of The Individual And Brings Within The Scope Of His Capabilities Almost Any Conceivable Objective.

There Is No Victory At Bargain Basement Prices.

Not Only Do I Have A Great Love For The Game Of Golf - No Matter How Badly I Play It - But I Have Also The Belief That Through Every Kind Of Meeting, Through Every Kind Of Activity To Which We Can Bring Together More Often And More Intimately Peoples Of Our Several Countries, By That Measure We Will Do Something To Solve The Difficulties And The Tensions That This Poor Old World Seems Nowadays To So Much Endure.

Like Myself, All Americans Have A Deep Concern For The Well-being Of Iran. With Them I Have Watched Closely Your Courageous Efforts, Your Steadfastness Over The Past Difficult Years, And With Them I Too Have Hoped That You Might Achieve The Goals You So Earnestly Desire. The Attainment Of An Oil Settlement Along The Lines Which Have Been Announced Should Be A Significant Step In The Direction Of The Realization Of Your Aspirations For Your People.

I Think That People Want Peace So Much That One Of These Days Government Had Better Get Out Of Their Way And Let Them Have It.

Innovations And Discoveries Have Created New Industries Giving More And More Americans Better Jobs And Adding Greatly To The Prosperity And Well Being Of All.

The Necessary And Wise Subordination Of The Military To Civil Power Must Be Sustained.

Every Gun That Is Made, Every Warship Launched, Every Rocket Fired Signifies In The Final Sense, A Theft From Those Who Hunger And Are Not Fed, Those Who Are Cold And Are Not Clothed. This World In Arms Is Not Spending Money Alone. It Is Spending The Sweat Of Its Laborers, The Genius Of Its Scientists, The Hopes Of Its Children. This Is Not A Way Of Life At All In Any True Sense. Under The Clouds Of War, It Is Humanity Hanging On A Cross Of Iron.

The Final Battle Against Intolerance Is To Be Fought - Not In The Chambers Of Any Legislature - But In The Hearts Of Men.

If You Want Total Security, Go To Prison. There You're Fed, Clothed, Given Medical Care And So On. The Only Thing Lacking... Is Freedom.

Science Seems Ready To Confer Upon Us, As Its Final Gift, The Power To Erase Human Life From This Planet.

I Was Against It On Two Counts. First, The Japanese Were Ready To Surrender, And It Wasn't Necessary To Hit Them With That Awful Thing. Second, I Hated To See Our Country Be The First To Use Such A Weapon.

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We Seek Peace, Knowing That Peace Is The Climate Of Freedom. And Now, As In No Other Age, We Seek It Because We Have Been Warned, By The Power Of Modern Weapons, That Peace May Be The Only Climate Possible For Human Life Itself.

There Are A Number Of Things Wrong With Washington. One Of Them Is That Everyone Is Too Far From Home.

I'm For Each And Against None.

Do Not Needlessly Endanger Your Lives Until I Give You The Signal.

Few Women, I Fear, Have Had Such Reason As I Have To Think The Long Sad Years Of Youth Were Worth Living For The Sake Of Middle Age.

Like All Successful Politicians I Married Above Myself.

Our Government Makes No Sense Unless It Is Founded On A Deeply Held Religious Belief - And I Don't Care What It Is.

The National Government Was Itself The Creature Of The States...yet Today It Is Often Made To Appear That The Creature, Frankenstein-like, Is Determined To Destroy The Creators.

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The Same Day I Saw My First Horror Camp, I Visited Every Nook And Cranny. I Felt It My Duty To Be In A Position From Then On To Testify About These Things In Case There Ever Grew Up At Home The Belief Or Assumption That The Stories Of Nazi Brutality Were Just Propaganda.

The Hope Of The World Is That Wisdom Can Arrest Conflict Between Brothers. I Believe That War Is The Deadly Harvest Of Arrogant And Unreasoning Minds. And I Find Grounds For This Belief In The Wisdom Literature Of Proverbs. It Says In Effect This: Panic Strikes Like A Storm And Calamity Comes Like A Whirlwind To Those Who Hate Knowledge And Ignore Their God.

The Friendship Of A Dog Is Precious. It Becomes Even More So When One Is So Far Removed From Home.... I Have A Scottie. In Him I Find Consolation And Diversion... He Is The "one Person" To Whom I Can Talk Without The Conversation Coming Back To War.

Life Is Certainly Only Worthwhile As It Represents Struggle For Worthy Causes. There Is No Struggle In Perfect Security. I Am Quite Certain That The Human Being Could Not Continue To Exist If He Or She Had Perfect Security.

No Treaty Or International Agreement Can Contravene The Constitution.

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Every Battle Is Going To Surprise You. No Plan Ever Survives Contact With The Enemy.

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With A Full Century Of Contrary Proof In Our Possession And Despite Our Demonstrated Capacity For Cooperative Teamwork, Some Among Us Seem To Accept The Shibboleth Of An Unbridgeable Gap Between Those Who Hire And Those Who Are Employed. We Miserably Fail To Challenge The Lie That What Is Good For Management Is Necessarily Bad For Labor; That For One Side To Profit, The Other Must Be Depressed. Such Distorted Doctrine Is False And Foreign To The American Scene Where Common Ideals And Purpose Permit Us A Common Approach Toward The Common Good.

Our Arms Must Be Mighty ... Ready For Instant Action, So That No Potential Aggressor May Be Tempted To Risk His Own Destruction

We The People, Elect Leaders Not To Rule But To Serve

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I Feel Impelled To Speak Today In A Language That In A Sense Is New-one Which I, Who Have Spent So Much Of My Life In The Military Profession, Would Have Preferred Never To Use. That New Language Is The Language Of Atomic Warfare.

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Kinship Among Nations Is Not Determined In Such Measurements As Proximity Of Size And Age. Rather We Should Turn To Those Inner Things - Call Them What You Will - I Mean Those Intangibles That Are The Real Treasures Free Men Possess. To Preserve His Freedom Of Worship, His Equality Before Law, His Liberty To Speak And Act As He Sees Fit, Subject Only To Provisions That He Trespass Not Upon Similar Rights Of Others - A Londoner Will Fight. So Will A Citizen Of Abilene. When We Consider These Things, Then The Valley Of The Thames Draws Closer To The Farms Of Kansas And The Plains Of Texas.

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Disarmament, With Mutual Honor And Confidence, Is A Continuing Imperative.

America Is Best Described By One Word, Freedom.

The Problem Is Not Merely Man Against Man Or Nation Against Nation. It Is Man Against War.

The Eyes Of The World Are Upon You. The Hopes And Prayers Of Liberty-loving People Everywhere March With You.

Oh, That Lovely Title, Ex-president.

A Constitutional Amendment For Congressional Term Limits Could Never Achieve The Blessing Of Congress; It Could Be Initiated Only By The States.

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Peace And Justice Are Two Sides Of The Same Coin.

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Plans Are Useless, But Planning Is Essential.

They [the Founders] Proclaimed To All The World The Revolutionary Doctrine Of The Divine Rights Of The Common Man. That Doctrine Has Ever Since Been The Heart Of The American Faith.

There Is No Glory In Battle Worth The Blood It Costs.

It Is Far More Important To Be Able To Hit The Target Than It Is To Haggle Over Who Makes A Weapon Or Who Pulls A Trigger.

The Search For A Scapegoat Is The Easiest Of All Hunting Expeditions.

The Day Will Come When The People Will Make So Insistent Their Demand That There Be Peace In The World That The Governments Will Get Out Of The Way And Let Them Have Peace.

There Can Be No True Disarmament Without Peace, And There Can Be No Real Peace Without Very Material Disarmament.

If We Make Ourselves Worthy Of America's Ideals, If We Do Not Forget That Our Nation Was Founded On The Premise That All Men Are Creatures Of God's Making, The World Will Come To Know That It Is Free Men Who Carry Forward The True Promise Of Human Progress And Dignity.

Help The Cubans To The Utmost Counseling His Successor While Handing Over The Reins. We Cannot Let Castro's Government Go On.

I Firmly Believe That The Future Of Civilization Is Absolutely Dependent Upon Finding Some Way Of Resolving International Differences Without Resorting To War.

The System Is Not Intended As A Substitute For Private Savings, Pension Plans, And Insurance Protection. It Is, Rather, Intended As The Foundation Upon Which These Other Forms Of Protection Can Be Soundly Built. Thus, The Individual's Own Work, His Planning And His Thrift Will Bring Him A Higher Standard Of Living Upon His Retirement, Or His Family A Higher Standard Of Living In The Event Of His Death, Than Would Otherwise Be The Case. Hence The System Both Encourages Thrift And Self-reliance, And Helps To Prevent Destitution In Our National Life.

I Also Ache At That Thought Your Majesty... But If They Do Not Offer The Sacrifice In Blood Now, We Will All Pay Dearly With Added Gallons Later. So If Some Most Die It Is In A Worthy Cause.

Only Strength Can Cooperate. Weakness Can Only Beg.

Organizations Cannot Make A Genius Out Of An Incompetent. On The Other Hand, Disorganization Can Scarcely Fail To Result In Efficiency.

We ... Must Avoid The Impulse To Live Only For Today, Plundering For Our Own Ease And Convenience The Precious Resources Of Tomorrow.

Preventive War Was An Invention Of Hitler. I Would Not Even Listen To Anyone Seriously That Came And Talked About Such A Thing.

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Dollars And Guns Are No Substitutes For Brains And Will Power.

Now This Brings Me To My Main Topic - Our Military Strength - More Specifically, How To Stay Strong Against Threat From Outside, Without Undermining The Economic Health That Supports Our Security.

The World Is More Like It Is Now Then It Ever Has Before.

The World Moves, And Ideas That Were Once Good Are Not Always Good.

Hope Spurs Humans Everywhere To Work Harder To Endure More Now That The Future May Be Better.

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I Have Full Confidence In Your Courage And Devotion To Duty And Skill In Battle. We Will Accept Nothing Less Than Full Victory! Good Luck! And Let Us Beseech The Blessing Of Almighty God Upon This Great And Noble Undertaking.

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Never Send A Battalion To Take A Hill If A Regiment Is Available.

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Censorship, In My Opinion, Is A Stupid And Shallow Way Of Approaching The Solution To Any Problem.

There Is A Kind Of Dictatorship That Can Come About Through A Creeping Paralysis Of Thought, Readiness To Accept Paternalistic Measures By Government, And Along With Those Measures Comes A Surrender Of Our Own Responsibilities And Therefore A Surrender Of Our Own Thought Over Our Own Lives And Our Own Right To Exercise The Vote. The Free System Gives The Right To Every Citizen To Do Something For Himself. Because He Has The Right, The Opportunity Is Always There.

Neither A Wise Man Nor A Brave Man Lies Down On The Tracks Of History To Wait For The Train Of The Future To Run Over Him.

I Believe It Is A Tradition In Baseball That When A Pitcher Has A No-hitter Going, No One Reminds Him Of It.

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We Have The Disgrace Of Racial Discrimination, Or We Have Prejudice Against People Because Of Their Religion. We Have Not Had The Courage To Uproot These Things, Although We Know They Are Wrong.

Remember That It Is Not By A Tyrant's Words, But Only By His Deeds That We Can Know Him.

First, Separate Ground, Sea And Air Warfare Is Gone Forever. If Ever Again We Should Be Involved In War, We Will Fight It In All Elements, With All Services, As One Single Concentrated Effort.

If A Problem Cannot Be Solved, Enlarge It.

Patronage Is Almost A Wicked Word. By Itself It Could Well-nigh Defeat Democracy.

The Future Of This Republic Is In The Hands Of The American Voter.

American Voters

Freedom From Fear And Injustice And Oppression Will Be Ours Only In The Measure That Men Who Value Such Freedom Are Ready To Sustain Its Possession - To Defend It Against Every Thrust From Within Or Without.

Injustice And Oppression

Leadership Is The Art Of Getting Someone Else To Do Something You Want Done Because He Wants To Do It.

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I Call Upon Those Who Love Freedom To Stand With Us Now. Together We Shall Achieve Victory.

Un-american Activity Cannot Be Prevented Or Routed Out By Employing Un-american Methods; To Preserve Freedom We Must Use The Tools That Freedom Provides.

Politics Ought To Be The Part-time Profession Of Every Citizen Who Would Protect The Rights And Privileges Of Free People And Who Would Preserve What Is Good And Fruitful In Our National Heritage.

Together We Must Learn How To Compose Differences, Not With Arms, But With Intellect And Decent Purpose.

We Are So Proud Of Our Guarantees Of Freedom In Thought And Speech And Worship, That, Unconsciously, We Are Guilty Of One Of The Greatest Errors That Ignorance Can Make - We Assume Our Standard Of Values Is Shared By All Other Humans In The World.

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Under The Clouds Of War, It Is Humanity Hanging On A Cross Of Iron.

War Is A Grim, Cruel Business, A Business Justified Only As A Means Of Sustaining The Forces Of Good Against Those Of Evil.

Art Is A Universal Language And Through It Each Nation Makes Its Own Unique Contribution To The Culture Of Mankind.

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More Than Any Single Action By The Government Since The End Of The War, This One Would Change The Face Of America With Straightaways, Cloverleaf Turns, Bridges, And Elongated Parkways. Its Impact On The American Economy-the Jobs It Would Produce In Manufacturing And Construction, The Rural Areas It Would Open Up-was Beyond Calculation.

We Will Accept Nothing Less Than Full Victory!

We Must Achieve Both Security And Solvency. In Fact, The Foundation Of Military Strength Is Economic Strength.

And The Other Was This: The Doctor Did Want To Take Off My Leg Because He Thought It Was Necessary. But You Must Remember Boys In Those Days Were Raised For Two Things: Work, And Then They Made Their Play; And If You Couldn't Play Baseball And Box And Play Football, Why, Your Life Was Ended. That Was In Our Boyish Minds.

First, Separate Ground, Sea And Air Warfare Is Gone Forever. This Lesson We Learned In World War Ii. I Lived That Lesson In Europe. Others Lived It In The Pacific. Millions Of American Veterans Learned It Well.

American Veterans

Don't Join The Book Burners!

And I Should Like To Assure You, My Islamic Friends, That Under The American Constitution, Under American Tradition, And In American Hearts, This Center, This Place Of Worship, Is Just As Welcome As Could Be A Similar Edifice Of Any Other Religion. Indeed, America Would Fight With Her Whole Strength For Your Right To Have Here Your Own Church And Worship According To Your Own Conscience. This Concept Is Indeed A Part Of America, And Without That Concept We Would Be Something Else Than What We Are.

Politics Is A Profession; A Serious, Complicated And, In Its True Sense, A Noble One.

No Battle Was Ever Won According To Plan, But No Battle Was Ever Won Without One.

According To Plan

The History Of Free Men Is Never Really Written By Chance But By Choice; Their Choice!

I Have One Yardstick By Which I Test Every Major Problem - And That Yardstick Is: Is It Good For America?

In The Final Choice A Soldier's Pack Is Not So Heavy As A Prisoner's Chains.

The Eyes Of The World Are Upon You.

The Peace We Seek And Need Means Much More Than Mere Absence Of War. It Means The Acceptance Of Law, And The Fostering Of Justice, In All The World.

Well, It's Hard For A Mere Man To Believe That Woman Doesn't Have Equal Rights.

We Will Bankrupt Ourselves In The Vain Search For Absolute Security.

What The Church Should Be Telling The Worker Is That The First Demand Religion Makes On Him Is That He Should Be A Good Workman. If He Is A Carpenter He Should Be A Competent Carpenter. Church By All Means On Sundays-but What Is The Use Of Church If At The Very Center Of Life A Man Defrauds His Neighbor And Insults God By Poor Craftsmanship.

My Constant Prayer, These Days, As I Start My Backswing Is, 'oh, Please Let Me Swing Slowly.' The Trouble Is That Sometimes I Wonder Whether I Swing At All; Whether I Am Not Strictly A Chopper.

Every Step We Take Towards Making The State Our Caretaker Of Our Lives, By That Much We Move Toward Making The State Our Master.

The True Purpose Of Education Is To Prepare Young Men And Women For Effective Citizenship In A Free Form Of Government.

The Quest For Peace Is The Statesman's Most Exacting Duty... Practical Progress To Lasting Peace Is His Fondest Hope.

The Things I Saw Beggar Description ... The Visual Evidence And The Verbal Testimony Of Starvation, Cruelty, And Bestiality Were So Overpowering As To Leave Me A Bit Sick. In One Room, Where There Were Piled Up Twenty Or Thirty Naked Men, Killed By Starvation, George Patton Would Not Even Enter. He Said He Would Get Sick If He Did So. I Made The Visit Deliberately, In Order To Be In A Position To Give First-hand Evidence Of These Things If Ever, In The Future, There Develops A Tendency To Charge These Allegations Merely To "propaganda".

We Face A Hostile Ideology Global In Scope, Atheistic In Character, Ruthless In Purpose And Insidious In Method.

We Have Won An Armistice On A Single Battlefield, Not Peace In Our World. We May Not Now Relax Our Guard Nor Cease Our Quest.

Without A Doubt, Psychological Warfare Has Proven Its Right To A Place Of Dignity In Our Military Arsenal.

America's Leadership And Prestige Depend, Not Merely Upon Our Unmatched Material Progress, Riches And Military Strength, But On How We Use Our Power In The Interests Of World Peace And Human Betterment.

War Is Mankind's Most Tragic And Stupid Folly; To Seek Or Advise Its Deliberate Provocation Is A Black Crime Against All Men. Though You Follow The Trade Of The Warrior, You Do So In The Spirit Of Washington - Not Of Genghis Khan. For Americans, Only Threat To Our Way Of Life Justifies Resort To Conflict.

If The United Nations Once Admits That International Disputes Can Be Settled By Using Force, Then We Will Have Destroyed The Foundation Of The Organization And Our Best Hope Of Establishing A World Order.

I Come From The Very Heart Of America.

Ankles Are Nearly Always Neat And Good-looking, But Knees Are Nearly Always Not.

And They Can Appreciate, Through Personal Experience, That The Really Decisive Battleground Of American Freedom Is In The Hearts And Minds Of Our Own People... Each Day We Must Ask That Almighty God Will Set And Keep His Protecting Hand Over Us So That We May Pass On To Those Who Come After Us The Heritage Of A Free People, Secure In Their God-given Rights And In Full Control Of A Government Dedicated To The Preservation Of Those Rights.

Planning Is Useless... But The Process Itself Is Indispensable.

The Federal Government Has A Responsibility To Manage Wisely Those Public Lands And Forests Under Its Jurisdiction Necessary In The Interest Of The Public As A Whole. ... In The Utilization Of These Lands, The People Are Entitled To Expect That Their Timber, Minerals, Streams And Water Supply, Wildlife And Recreational Values Should Be Safeguarded, Improved And Made Available Not Only For This But For Future Generations.

And Now, As In No Other Age, We Seek It [peace] Because We Have Been Warned, By The Power Of Modern Weapons, That Peace May Be The Only Climate Possible For Human Life Itself.

I Feel Like The Fellow In Jail Who Is Watching His Scaffold Being Built." (on Construction Of Reviewing Stands For Inauguration Of His Successor John F Kennedy)

How Far Have We Come In Man's Long Pilgrimage From Darkness Toward Light? Are We Nearing The Light-a Day Of Freedom And Of Peace For All Mankind? Or Are The Shadows Of Another Night Closing In Upon Us?

No Man Can Always Be Right. So The Struggle Is To Do One's Best, To Keep The Brain And Conscience Clear, Never Be Swayed By Unworthy Motives Or Inconsequential Reasons, But To Strive To Unearth The Basic Factors Involved, Then Do One's Duty.

Our Economy Is The Result Of Millions Of Decisions We All Make Every Day About Producing, Earning, Saving, Investing, And Spending.

The Proudest Thing I Can Claim Is That I Am From Abilene.

I Don't Think The United States Needs Superpatriots. We Need Patriotism, Honestly Practiced By All Of Us, And We Don't Need These People That Are More Patriotic Than You Or Anyone Else.

Of Course Overlord Did Not Fail. How Could It? With Some Many Fine Young Men And Women From All Corners Of The Earth All Determined To Do Their Best To Free A World Gone Half Mad.

If A Political Party Does Not Have Its Foundation In The Determination To Advance A Cause That Is Right And That Is Moral, Then It Is Not A Political Party; It Is Merely A Conspiracy To Seize Power.

I Deplore The Need Or The Use Of Troops Anywhere To Get American Citizens To Obey The Orders Of Constituted Courts.

The Free World Must Not Prove Itself Worthy Of Its Own Past.

War Is Mankind's Most Tragic And Stupid Folly; To Seek Or Advise Its Deliberate Provocation Is A Black Crime Against All Men.

A Voter Without A Ballot Is Like A Soldier Without A Bullet.

Only By Trusting In God Can A Man Carrying Responsibility Find Repose.

More Than Ever Before, In Our Country, This Is The Age Of The Individual. Endowed With The Accumulated Knowledge Of Centuries, Armed With All The Instruments Of Modern Science, He Is Still Assured Personal Freedom And Wide Avenues Of Expression So That He May Win For Himself, His Family And His Country Greater Material Comfort, Ease And Happiness; Greater Spiritual Satisfaction And Contentment.

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