It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. Albert Einstein
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury
Common sense is not so common. Voltaire
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. Alan Alda
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man. Catherine Deneuve
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. Albert Einstein
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. Ralph Waldo Emerson
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. Ernest Hemingway
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde
Action is the real measure of intelligence. Napoleon Hill
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. Dolly Parton
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. Stephen Hawking
Information is not knowledge. Albert Einstein
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. Salvador Dali
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. Julius Charles Hare
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. Albert Camus
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. Victor Hugo
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. Oscar Wilde
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. Helen Gurley Brown
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. Janis Joplin
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. Socrates
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. Don Herold
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things. Bryant H. McGill
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. Bill Watterson
Knowledge is love and light and vision. Helen Keller
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. Mark Twain
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. Gracie Allen
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. George Orwell
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Blaise Pascal
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. Dwight D. Eisenhower
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. Ronald Reagan
To think is to practice brain chemistry. Deepak Chopra
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike. Spiro T. Agnew
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. Jean-Paul Sartre
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. Carl Sagan
Always be smarter than the people who hire you. Lena Horne
Wit is educated insolence. Aristotle
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Belief is the death of intelligence. Robert Anton Wilson
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. George Bernard Shaw
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. Josh Billings
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. Samuel Goldwyn
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Timothy Leary
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals. Steve Jobs
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. E. B. White
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. Roger Ebert
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. A. A. Milne
Genius always finds itself a century too early. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. Susan Sontag
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. Sigmund Freud
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. Michel de Montaigne
There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid. John Fowles
Every true genius is bound to be naive. Friedrich Schiller
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. Woodrow Wilson
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. Henri Frederic Amiel
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. Ed Parker
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle. Bryant H. McGill
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. Charles Kettering
People are smarter than you might think. John Astin
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You have to be smart. The easy days are over. Robert Kiyosaki
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. Ambrose Bierce
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly. Diogenes
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. Don Herold
The higher the voice the smaller the intellect. Ernest Newman
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. Carl Jung
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. Carl Jung
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect. John Kenneth Galbraith
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. George Orwell
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. Lewis Carroll
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. Augustus Hare
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. James Whistler
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head. Alexander Pope
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. Josh Billings
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. G. H. Hardy
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Sigmund Freud
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. Marcel Proust
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing. Irene Peter
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain. Daniel Goleman
If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Tom Robbins
There is no method but to be very intelligent. T. S. Eliot
Remember to be as smart as you are. Judd Nelson
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked. Steve Wozniak
When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am. Don Van Vliet
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. Arnold J. Toynbee
Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect. Alan Moore
Intelligence is not a science. Frank Carlucci
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. Margaret Anderson
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. Winston Churchill
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. Thomas A. Edison
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. Michael Jordan
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. H. L. Mencken
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless. Niccolo Machiavelli
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. Niccolo Machiavelli
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. Leonardo da Vinci
Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence. Steve Jobs
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. Edgar Allan Poe
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. Malcolm X
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Immanuel Kant
No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. H. L. Mencken
Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you. Wayne Dyer
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. e. e. cummings
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision. Thomas A. Edison
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. Sloan Wilson
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. Bertrand Russell
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said. William F. Buckley, Jr.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence. Lao Tzu
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. Bertrand Russell
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. Abigail Adams
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results. Sun Tzu
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation. James Allen
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. Louis Pasteur
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. Ambrose Bierce
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. Henry David Thoreau
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity. Jacques Yves Cousteau
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? John Keats
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. Karl A. Menninger
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence. George Bernard Shaw
My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters. Michelle Obama
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. Aldous Huxley
Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention. E. Stanley Jones
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. Saul Bellow
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. Groucho Marx
In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise. Margaret J. Wheatley
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. John Calvin
In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should. Hillary Clinton
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves. Grover Cleveland
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying. Marilyn vos Savant
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. Stephen Hawking
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence. Victor Hugo
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. Dwight D. Eisenhower
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel. Andre Maurois
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. Thomas Szasz
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement. Barack Obama
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. Julian Assange
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. Alan Perlis
We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers. Mitt Romney
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. Christopher Columbus
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. Bertrand Russell
When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.' Brian Eno
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. Terry Pratchett
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. Aldous Huxley
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. Albert Camus
My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.' Tiger Woods
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. Alvin Toffler
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. George Santayana
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. J. K. Rowling
I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times. John F. Kennedy
The universe is an intelligence test. Timothy Leary
Intelligence is a moral category. Theodor Adorno
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. Arthur Schopenhauer
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence. E. Stanley Jones
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. Honore de Balzac
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. Emile M. Cioran
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. Bertolt Brecht
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things. David Bailey
George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant. Rush Limbaugh
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. Virginia Woolf
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. Saint Augustine
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. Simone Weil
There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition. Stephen Hawking
I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world. William Hague
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. Joseph Story
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness. Marcel Proust
If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong. Arlen Specter
Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence. Bryant H. McGill
Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer. Bryant H. McGill
Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces. Bryant H. McGill
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. Pablo Picasso
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. Simone Weil
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. Simone Weil
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. Laurence J. Peter
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. Edward de Bono
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. Linus Torvalds
The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind. Phaedrus
Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information. John McCarthy
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. John Kenneth Galbraith
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. Andrew Jackson
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate. Harold Pinter
I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars. Michael Caine
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. Raymond Chandler
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. Jose Bergamin
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. James Russell Lowell
I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status. Sophia Bush
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. Walter Lippmann
We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change. John Sununu
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. John Steinbeck
I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic. David Bowie
For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere. Bruce Springsteen
The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London. John le Carre
It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely. John le Carre
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence. Daniel Goleman
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. Holly Near
If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests. King Abdullah II
I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you. Mehmet Oz
I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough. Roberto Cavalli
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence. William F. Buckley, Jr.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. William Feather
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. Joseph Pulitzer
Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership. Peter Pace
The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything. Prince Andrew
Imagination is but another name for super intelligence. Edgar Rice Burroghs
I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head. Rafik Hariri
You want to keep intelligence separate from policy. Bobby Ray Inman
Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas. Bobby Ray Inman
The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency. Bobby Ray Inman
I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser. Richard Shelby
Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America. Chris Cannon
As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering. Kelly Ayotte
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. John Sterling
I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved. Ted Stevens
I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community. Ted Stevens
I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context. Ted Stevens
Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence. Jay Rockefeller
Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time. Yuri Milner
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties. Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show. Nichelle Nichols
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Russell Lynes
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.
Thomas Francis Meagher
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