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Most people are not really hurt by the world.

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They're hurt by their own expectations.

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I read somewhere that H.G. Wells was very disappointed in people.

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He thought that we would have arrived at more of a scientific community

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than what we have today.

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But what hurt him was not the world,

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it was his expectations.

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He expected people to lean more toward science

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and less toward metaphysics.

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He suspected that the system

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would gather intelligence and know the right direction.

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So what really hurt him was his own expectations.

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The real answer to that question is:

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Whatever happens in the world is real.

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What you think should happen is not real.

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So you're not disappointed by the world.

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You're disappointed by your own projections.

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If you meet a person, you say "There's a wonderful person"

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and they turn out to be different than you suspected

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you get mad, and you say "She isn't that wonderful"

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or "He isn't that wonderful"

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and it's your own projections that you're mad at.

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The right way to look at a person is:

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"I don't know enough about them to make a judgment."

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In time, when you make a judgment

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you say "Up to now, they appear to be so-so."

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But something may come back that reminds them [the other person] of something else.

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So they hurt you. They really don't hurt you.

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They're normal; that is, normal to their values.

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Like my mother would believe in religion

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because it's normal to her background

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and when things get tough, she prays ...

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because she doesn't know what else to do.

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What you have to do is take time out

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and try to inform people as to how to look at things.

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It may take you two or three years to do that

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but we would expect to find people that understand what we say.

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When they shake their head like "Yes"

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that doesn't mean they understand.

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It means they understand a limited amount.

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So, the point is:

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What are your expectations?

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Now, in chemistry, if you mix certain things together

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certain things happen, at a certain temperature.

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At different temperatures, the same thing doesn't happen.

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You can get mad and throw the experiment on the floor

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if you don't follow the rules.

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So if a person wants to be more analytical

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they have to learn how to say "I don't know"

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or "Up to now, everything seems to be OK.

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My relationship seems to work out in many different areas

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or more areas than I expected."

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Sometimes we're pleasantly surprised

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by the reaction of people we had a negative view of.

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I may have a negative view of you

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but in time, observing what you do

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my negative view becomes a positive view.

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But if I have a negative view, it means I was projecting.

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I really don't know. So the point is

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when events occur that are tough,

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if a person deserts you at that time

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you'll understand that they can't live under those conditions.

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They're not bad people. They revert back to their conditioning.

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Now, "reverting back to their conditioning" means

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if the world is catastrophic

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if a man is shot, he's laying in the battlefield

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he says "I hope the first-aid people come soon. I don't feel very good."

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If they don't come soon, he says "Where the hell are they?"

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He expected them to come sooner

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but they come as soon as they can come, whenever that is.

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And if you can't take it, you can swear all you want to

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but if you continue to swear and continue to get angry

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they're apt to arrive during that period.

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And you say "Well, it's my prayers

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because I hoped they'd come and rescue me."

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That goes for...

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H.G. Wells had a scene in the movie

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I think it was called 'The Shape of Things to Come'

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in which a pilot shot down a German pilot or another pilot

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and he went over to the plane crash

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and the guy was very ill.

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He couldn't leave. He says "The plane is going to explode

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and I'm badly damaged." So

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this guy gave him a gun to shoot himself.

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In the motion picture "Airmail"

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there was a guy caught in an airplane. [He] couldn't get out. [It] was burning

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so the guy shot him twice. The guy loved him

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but he didn't want him to burn to death.

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Is that murder? What is it?

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If anybody claimed he was suffering so much from cancer

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I shot him. Is that love?

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How do you talk about love?

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Do you know what I mean? If a person is suffering from cancer

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he says "Please, take my life.

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The doctor says I can live three months with this condition."

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And you hear him crying out, suffering

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and you shoot him. Are you a murderer? Are you kind?

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All those words are very difficult to deal with.

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It depends on the situation.

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It depends on how attached you are to the person.

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If you don't give a damn about their suffering. You know what I mean?

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So people begged certain doctors to take their lives.

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They were suffering too much. It was too much on their family.

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They didn't have a bank account to pay for this medical condition

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that they were under. They said "Please, end my life

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because the pain is unbearable."

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And the Bible says you're not supposed to take a life

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no matter what the pain is.

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That's your entry into heaven, especially in India.

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If a person's suffering a great deal, they're paying off their karma.

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If you end that, you shoot them, they can't pay off their karma.

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So, you got all these crazy things

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that you are exposed to

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and you use your logic, thinking that it makes sense.

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It only makes sense if a person says "I see your point

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but I'm unable to accept it emotionally."

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There are people like that, that can't do that.

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They can't shoot their father, even though he's suffering

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because it says "Thou shalt not kill"

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and they figure that even if they shot their father that was suffering

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they've committed a crime against God.

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So, remember, it's your own expectations that hurt you

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not the world you live in. Whatever happens in the world is real.

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What you think should happen is unreal.

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So people are hurt by their expectations.

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Any questions about that?

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If you have reasonable expectations such as "I don't know"

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then whatever happens, you say "I didn't think it would be that bad."

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How do you know how bad it would be?

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Whatever happens, no matter how bad it is

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if fifty kids are killed in a bus crash

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that's a problem. Why were they killed?

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The bus slipped off an icy highway. What can you do about it?

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"I don't know." And the condition will prevail

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unless you come up with a new way of friction tires

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that can't skid on icy highways.

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That's the best you can do. But if you made those tires

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and you put them on the bus, and the bus still slipped

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it means you got more to go.

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You can't say "I made ice tires that won't slip."

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That's a projection, unless you tested it out many times.

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Do you understand?

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So what does man really want?

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He really wants accurate predictability.

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You cannot achieve that unless you're technical.

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...accurate predictability.

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If an engine fails it means

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there's something wrong with a fuel pump, or any number of things.

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If you can't attend to those things

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then the probability is that at some time or other

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the engine will fail.

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Now, I don't expect you to walk around accepting everything that happens.

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I expect you to be angered and say "What can I do about it?

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I don't know, but I'm going to try. I'm going to try to make it possible

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for people not to be injured.

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I'm going to try to design a conveyor

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that's on the tracks and under the tracks, that's locked

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so even in an amusement park

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the loop-da-loop can't go off the tracks

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because it's got under-braces."

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But the under-braces may be perfect

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but the structure of the unit may not be.

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So, to the ability of an individual

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to handle all those things is very difficult

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but he only knows, or she only knows, what to handle after the event.

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The event has to occur first, then the person makes a safety device

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and he solved that problem, but there may be other problems

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and another event may occur that's negative.

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And the person says "What can I do about it?

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I don't know enough about it. I'm going to read up on it

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and try to become familiar with the nature of the problem

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and try to solve it." And

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when a person says to you "Have you solved it?"

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- This is the device I made in an attempt to solve it.

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- Will it work? - Well, according to the tests I did, it will.

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But in reality, it was cold and the oil didn't flow

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so the thing wasn't lubricated, and it didn't work.

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There are other factors you learn about later on.

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That's called "after the facts."

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So some people get mad at technicians and say

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"You're a technician. Why did that thing fail?" "What do you suggest?"

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is what you put to that person.

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If they say "You designed that unit and it failed."

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"Yes it did fail, apparently I didn't know enough about

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solving that problem. What do you suggest?

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Don't get mad at me. What do you suggest?

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You've done nothing but expect me to solve the problem."

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