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You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.
– Chris Morris
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You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you - that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have - talent, contacts, knowledge - and do something different.
– Cat Deeley
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You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
– William Glasser
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Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.
– Tom Jenkinson
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Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.
– Samuel Horsley
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Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
– Abu Bakr
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Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
– Thomas Bulfinch
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With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
– Orville Wright
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With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.
– Sonny Bono
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Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
– John Cheever
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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
– Buffalo Bill
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Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.
– Scott Turow
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Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.
– Anne Wilson Schaef
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While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.
– Dorothy Denning
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Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.
– Walter Mosley
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When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.
– Jimmy Carter
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When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
– Abdullah Ibrahim
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When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.
– Joseph Lancaster
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When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
– Abu Bakr
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When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.
– John Cameron
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When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.
– Marvin Minsky
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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
– Herbert Spencer
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
– George Bernard Shaw
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
– Georg C. Lichtenberg
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What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.
– Cheech Marin
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What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.
– Jean-Francois Lyotard
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What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
– Elie Wiesel
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What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.
– Jimmy Wales
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Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.
– Johnny Isakson
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
– Abigail Adams
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We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.
– Leon Jouhaux
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We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.
– Clifford Geertz
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We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding of civics. There is no more emphasis on knowledge and time. As a society we need to process ideas and understand what certain principles are based upon.
– Richard Dreyfuss
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We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.
– Asa Gray
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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
– John Archibald Wheeler
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We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
– Arthur Erickson
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We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
– Anne Sullivan Macy
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We have a tremendous lack of knowledge of how far we have gotten away from the Constitution of the United States. Democrats and Republicans alike have taken us away from the original intent. You see, I believe in this document as our founding fathers intended it.
– Paul Broun
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We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
– Tavis Smiley
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
– Jack LaLanne
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We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
– William Glasser
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We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.
– Petra Nemcova
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We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
– Franz Kafka
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We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.
– Rory Bremner
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We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
– John Naisbitt
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Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
– Anne Rice
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Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
– Albert J. Nock
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
– Matthew Arnold
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Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
– Milton Friedman
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True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.
– Robert Mugabe
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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
– Socrates
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To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.
– Frederick Soddy
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To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
– Thomas B. Macaulay
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To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.
– Lawrence Hargrave
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To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.
– Don Rickles
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To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.
– Jim Ryun
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To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
– Jean Piaget
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To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.
– David Soul
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To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education.
– Melanie Griffith
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To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.
– Sir Thomas More
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To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.
– Wilhelm Dilthey
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To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.
– Friedrich August von Hayek
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Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.
– Wilhelm Dilthey
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Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.
– Thomas Bulfinch
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Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.
– Aly Khan
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
– Roland Barthes
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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
– David Hare
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Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.
– John Boyd Orr
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
– Franz Grillparzer
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This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.
– Kenneth L. Pike
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This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
– Carroll Quigley
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This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
– Jean Piaget
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This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.
– Timothy Geithner
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This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.
– Miroslav Vitous
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These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
– Frances Wright
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These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back.
– Cedric Richmond
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There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
– Benjamin Carson
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There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.
– Miroslav Vitous
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There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
– Charles Dudley Warner
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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
– Hermann Hesse
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
– Charles Babbage
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There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
– Erica Jong
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There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.
– Van Wyck Brooks
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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
– Thomas Reid
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There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.
– Bob Kerrey
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
– Michel de Montaigne
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
– Bertrand Russell
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There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.
– Shakti Gawain
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There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.
– Suzanne Somers
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There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.
– John Drinkwater
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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
– Denis Diderot
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.
– Hippocrates
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
– Tahar Ben Jelloun
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The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.
– John Jewel
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The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
– Chanakya
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The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.
– Kurt Sutter
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.
– Albert J. Nock
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