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[Assistant] Success was material success and failure was considered to be a personal loss and that's why we have Roman generals on failing, committing suicide. And then we talked about the


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[Assistant] The Christian conception that failure can be a state of blessedness.


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[Assistant] So we may fall in the eyes of the world, but we may rise in the, in the eyes of God.


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[Assistant] Is the fear of future failures paralyzing us.


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[Assistant] So then we talk from the, anything in the contemporary or contemporary I left out?


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[Assistant] The trauma, you can avoid both, all kinds of emotional upheavals, both the elation of success and the dejection of failure.


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[Assistant] What has been popularised about Buddhism is not the metaphysical or even the ethical, it's more the practical ideas of letting go, being present and being mindful. And then we talk about the Vedic concept.


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[Assistant] So failure can happen because of our own mistakes, adhyatmic, because of other people's incompetence and malevolence, that is adhibhautic, and because of nature, that's adhidevic.


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[Assistant] So death in a war field is a failure in this life.


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[Assistant] But if you consider death as each, each lifetime as just one chapter in a book.


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[Assistant] Then that failure takes one to heaven which is success at another level.


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[Assistant] Is the primary purpose of life and the primer and the overarching definer of success.


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[Assistant] To make, to process what caused the failure, my mistakes, other people, I myself, other people of nature, and take appropriate actions.


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[Assistant] And we discussed also about spiritual failures, where somebody doesn't succeed in reaching Krishna.


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[Assistant] And there are three options. If somebody just leaves.


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[Assistant] If somebody leaves because they want material enjoyment, pious religious material enjoyment, then they'll go to heaven and come back. That's like a student


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[Assistant] And third is, when somebody falls to immorality, then they may lose the material position.


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[Assistant] They may be low born, although they lose the material position, they don't lose the spiritual disposition and they resume eventually. So by staying spiritually connected, we will always be on the path to spiritual success.


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[Assistant] Thank you. This was a quite a stimulating discussion. Look forward to more discussions in future. Thank you.


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[Assistant] The main purpose of the factory is of course to produce condoms, but it also improves local economic conditions.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I kind of view it a little bit like a mountain. You had Avatar, then it went up with Prince of Persia.


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[Assistant] And we have Steam decks, like there are a lot more things entering into the mobile and hybrid space. I mean, but Nintendo does have that strength of their first party IPs. And as long as they're doing right by those, they generally do very well.


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[Assistant] I tried to throw something in Slack about the number. I wasn't able to see what the past number was, but Tom Warren from The Verge clarified that the 34 million number put out by Microsoft also includes Xbox Game Pass Core subscribers.


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[Assistant] The amount of people that, that appeals to isn't big enough though.


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[Assistant] And all the stuff that was confusing about it, but like Switch, like yes, it's nice as portable, but like, I think price is everything for that, for Nintendo, so.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, like Microsoft and Sony, they aren't competing on that low end, so they really can't get down that low.


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[Assistant] Uh, I'm reading something on the Steam page here, cause I was like curious, like if it said anything about like the shared world, like multiplayer aspect came across. So are the diamond things called Sparks? Cause they were saying they unlock new abilities. They say there's new abilities.


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[Assistant] When you were logging in were they like kind of like throwing those at you or like how do you like discover? Because you're saying like it felt like there's a lot like too much to do.


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[Assistant] Oh, just the point Janet was making about like eh, you don't have to actually like shoot too much, but there's like, there's other stuff to do.


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[Assistant] To me is like 90% of the game versus like the shooting part. It's like, oh, the shooting comes at some part. It's like you don't pull the trigger that often and it is meaningful when it happens. But the fun stuff is just running around with your friends and seeing like how far you can get before those firefights happen.


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[Assistant] Probably. They've done stuff like that in the past. There was like an IGN live I went to for like the 360 launch event back in the day. Yeah. So they're whatever. They're fine.


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[Assistant] You remember when I told you part four, the beginning wasn't like, I wasn't feeling it, but then I felt like I got better. I felt like the opening act was a little like, you know, low key, low key. Like I didn't think like the choreography was as good in that part, but after that,


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[Assistant] You know, they're fighting downstairs and like the daughter comes, you know, saves her and then like his friend runs off. But after that part, oh man, like the staircase.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, another Resident Evil one, but Resident Evil 6, uh, my friend Matt Simmons, we, uh, uh, we had it in advance, Resident Evil 6, and I wanted to play through it with someone else, so we played through the entirety of it. Damn, I didn't know you.


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[Assistant] So the codes were actually like on a disc, not like digital codes. You got like a physical disc. So we got a bunch of those and I brought mine home and we were playing it and because the point is, because it was advanced copy,


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[Assistant] No, cause I was, I was kinda with you Hubert cause we played through, him and I played through RE5 when we got it in as well because I did like, I didn't review that one but like I was doing all like the capture so I was also playing a lot of it at home.


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[Assistant] I need other people to answer, I don't really consciously think about it.


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[Assistant] Why are we forgetting their names now? Yeah, blooper, thank you. Yes. Like I'm zoning out now. Wow. And the little spinning fire thing is underwater. It's very easy, like misjudged, like cause the swimming is like, you


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[Assistant] Float up and down. It's not like it's a little, I mean, it's a little floaty naturally. So it's easy to like hit something by accident there so I could see it. But to retry it to be really quick, I feel like. So I mean, that's something I think is doable for a lot of us.


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[Assistant] But the Square Enix tweeted about it today saying like, you should go see it. I was like, okay, rebirth stuff, let's go.


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[Assistant] This part of the Sierra is poor.


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[Assistant] They said they were fighting the


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[Assistant] Senhores pasajeros, muy buenos días.


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[Assistant] In Rio de Janeiro.


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[Assistant] Tan especiales, tan comprensivos


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[Assistant] I would like to know your views and we can also together explore the topic of racism. I came across this particular presentation and I am borrowing the title from


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[Assistant] When they established the notion that because we dominated you politically, commercially, trade wise, therefore we are superior to you.


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[Assistant] And the Jews would say that a messiah would come, a messiah would come. So the Romans would say there is no messiah now. The Roman emperor is all in all. He is God. And although the Jews were subjugated,


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[Assistant] If a person comes to me and says, okay, you guys have Vedic wisdom, you speak on various topics. Why am I born the way I am born? Can we have a correct answer?


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[Assistant] So uhm, I'll just share that example.


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[Assistant] And a discussion about society and social reforms with one Professor Oliver. Later, after post-apartheid,


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[Assistant] How are you solving the race inequality or how is, how are you different from others? So that time Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahatma Mahat


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[Assistant] So initially the righteous anger started breaking that but then the opportunistic anger of others


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[Assistant] I have a lot of fun, I mean yea, tons of games tied to tons of different friends, but in particular one that popped into my mind is my...


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[Assistant] One day during the latter days, the dying days of the Dreamcast, I went over to his house and he just said, Don, come here. And he took me around the side of his apartment, uh, built his house and took me to the trash. And he opened up the lid and he had like his leather Dreamcast.


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[Assistant] I get to like the fourth level boss back in the day with on one quarter, which I was super proud of. It was in the lobby of the movie theater, so I used to play it on every single one of my breaks in my first job. That is such a vibe in a movie show.


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[Assistant] And dial telephones, it tough. How long will it take?


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[Assistant] Raki toh marna marna hai. Chalta rahega.


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[Assistant] Don't know, comrade. I don't know. I didn't have a chance to see. Comrade Braun.


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[Assistant] There's a man at the laundry. A new man. What new man? He came to work Tuesday on the night shift.


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[Assistant] What about him? Well, it's nothing you can pick out, but he doesn't seem like the other laundry floaters that take jobs like this. I see.


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[Assistant] You waited until now to tell me about this new man? Well, I wasn't sure.


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[Assistant] I used to have charge accounts with all the best night clubs. At least I ate regularly.


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[Assistant] I've suffered more in these last three days than I have in the entire war. I think my first hunch was right. It's just a gag. So we'll have to face it. No millions, no church wedding. I'm just a bust.


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[Assistant] Mr. Brewster, I hope this delay has an inconvenience to you.


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[Assistant] But you understand we had to completely chuck into your identity and also await the arrival of Mr. Swearegan Jones from Bolivia. He's the executor of the will, you know. And, uh, let me congratulate you, Mr. Brewster. You've just inherited eight million dollars.


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[Assistant] My uncle James T. Sedgwick died and left me eight million dollars net after all taxes have been paid. That's right, son. He made it all in Bolivia.


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[Assistant] No, no, your Uncle Jim's idea was perfectly logical. You see, when he was a boy, his father made him chew a wad of tobacco. He got so sick, he never chewed or smoked again. He wants you to spend until you are sick of it. He wants you to learn to hate spending money.


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[Assistant] Sorry to give you such a short notice, uh, Brewster, but you see, your uncle died eight months ago when you were in Italy, and we, we couldn't contact you. Well, let's see. This is August 13th, so two months from today.


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[Assistant] It must be kept secret. Secret? Why? So that your friends can't help you, nor hinder you. Well, what's a man got friends for if they can't help him spend his money? Uh, there are a few other conditions. I think perhaps you'd better hear me. Grant, will you read them?


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[Assistant] The anthropological society of Bolivia gets it if you don't. That, those thousand dollar bills, they're, they're real? Real and good any place in the land. Well son, is it yes or no? Oh well, well now wait a minute, wait a minute. A million dollars in sixty days, that means I'd have to spend, I'd have to spend about, thanks very much, about eighteen thousand dollars a day.


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[Assistant] Oh, not that we don't trust you, but uh, it might bolster your conscience in case you weaken. Place your hand on the Bible and repeat after me.


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[Assistant] Oh, just things in general, like marriage and oaths and, uh, assets. Darling, did you know that you're an asset? You're sort of a frozen asset, right?


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[Assistant] Oh yes, yes, yes, I invited him to the wedding. He has to go to 10 Mountain. That's in Bolivia, you know. He thinks he can be back in time.


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[Assistant] Under the circumstances, I thought that maybe it would be a good idea if we, uh, postpone the wedding until, well, just some future date that, uh, wouldn't you like to sit down?


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[Assistant] Yes, yes, certain responsibilities, certain, uh, provisions that a fella h-


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[Assistant] I've always hoped someday that I could slip a little ring on the sweetest finger in the world, and there it is.


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[Assistant] What's that you're buying for 22 grand? The Royal Suite at the Weldon Towers. We each got three rooms apiece. The rest of the place is for Peggy and Mom.


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[Assistant] Well, it's a kind of a peculiar business. I don't know if I can exactly explain its various channels. In fact, I can't explain it exactly because I don't think you can explain it exactly.


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[Assistant] Peggy, you're gonna be my private secretary at a salary of a thousand dollars a month. With an automatic raise every three hours. Hey, wait a minute. You kick your door around like that for a couple of months and you'll be broke. Yeah. Monte Cristo.


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[Assistant] Why, the kiss is the most important business I've transacted all day.


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[Assistant] And you see, and you thought I was crazy to take this whole top floor. Why, we're outgrowing our offices already. Get me the manager of the poultry show at Madison Square Garden.


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[Assistant] All fine, put him on. Hello? This is Montague Al Brewster speaking.


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[Assistant] I want to offer a cash prize of ten thousand dollars to the hen that lays the most eggs between one and six tomorrow afternoon. Yes, that's right. I'll send my check over to you. Oh, thank you.


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[Assistant] Oh, so that's it. Nopper, Nopper, what happens when you drop a rubber ball on the floor?


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[Assistant] Hello, Allison? This is Monty Brewster speaking. Yea, say I want you to, uh,


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[Assistant] I want you to buy me some more of that lumber and fuel stock. Yes, yes, I know it's going down, but I want another five thousand shares. Yes, that's right. No, no, I haven't got a tip. I'm, uh, I'm just using my own judgment. That's right. All right, thanks, JB. That's the payoff!


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[Assistant] Napper Harrison, Esquire. Replying to your favor, just received, tendering your resignation. If you will wait until you are fired, I will appreciate it greatly. Now pull in your long ears and stop acting like a jackass. Signed, your pal, Monty Brewster.


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[Assistant] Not at all, not at all. I'd hoped, uh, that is unexpected it would cost twice that much. It's awfully nice of you to help me out like this, Barbara.


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[Assistant] Oh, wonderful people, those two. It's wonderful. Oh, what's the matter? Did something wrong?


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[Assistant] She doesn't mean a thing to me. She's just grateful because I agreed to leave my money in her father's bank. My relationship with her is strictly business.


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[Assistant] Thinking has become my specialty. I think for eighteen hours a day. Oh, it's all very well for the ordinary businessman to think. He thinks of something to do, does it, and that's the end of it. But I have to think what other people think. And then I have to think what they think I think. And then I think what they think I think I think.


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[Assistant] I'm going nuts. Everything I touch turns to gold. I'm sorry, Brewster.


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[Assistant] Frankly, never. But what do you think about it? Oh, I think it's sensational! Boy, she'd be a sensation in Coney Island. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna reopen girl with a sweater right here in the city. And I'm gonna make you the biggest star on Broadway. What do you say to that, Miss Summers?


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[Assistant] Now the trouble with the show was it was too cheap. Seventy-five thousand dollars. Why, that's peanuts. My uncle hated the stingy man. I'll put in another two hundred thousand. Two hundred thousand? That's a lot of rubles. Never talk about money where art is concerned.


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[Assistant] Wonderful. Can't remember having had a better night. Oh, that is what there was left of it.


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[Assistant] Well, just get yourself over to the theater and take that notice down. I can't. You have no theater. I've got no... Well, I've got a year's lease on the theater.


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[Assistant] That is to ask you if it'd be alright if we got married when we came back from the cruise. Then we could be married on October 13th, my birthday. But I'm not going on the cruise. You're not going? Well, Peggy, please, string along with me.


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[Assistant] You either have to spend the million or return it, or what's left of it to the estate.


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[Assistant] But Mr. Jones, I'm losing my girl. She just gave me back my ring and walked out on me. I've got to tell her. You gave her a ring? It's a good thing she gave it back. If you marry her, that ring would have been an asset. Anything you give your future wife is an asset. Look, Mr. Jones.


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[Assistant] My girl just walked out of here with my best friend. And when a girl walks out with a guy- Are you listening, Mr. Jones?


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[Assistant] If you had lived in the time of Edison, you would have scoffed at his invention of the electric light. I still think they ain't practical.


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[Assistant] No, no, those are receipts. Beautiful, wonderful receipts. Receipts for a million dollars. Go on. Where's your luggage? I'm standing right in the middle of my entire wardrobe.


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[Assistant] Mom, I've got to meet a man by the name of Jones here at twelve o'clock, a little, uh,


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[Assistant] Come here a minute. You've always admired these diamond cuff buttons. I've always said these were the most huggable cuff buttons I've ever had.


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[Assistant] I fully expected to find a constable in the kitchen, waiting to take me up. But not only was there no constable there, but no discovery had yet been made of the robbery.


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[Assistant] Mrs. Jo was prodigiously busy in getting the house ready for the festivities of the day.


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[Assistant] And Joe had been put up on the kitchen doorstep to keep him out of the dustpan, an article into which his destiny always led him sooner or later, when my sister was vigorously reaping the floors of her establishment.


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[Assistant] That was Mrs. Joe's Christmas salutation, when I and my conscience showed ourselves. I said I had been down to hear the carols. Ah, well. Observed Mrs. Joe.


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[Assistant] Joe, who had ventured into the kitchen, after me, as the dustpan had retired before us,


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[Assistant] Drew the back of his hand across his nose with a conciliatory air, when Mrs. Joe darted a look at him, and, when her eyes were withdrawn, secretly crossed his two forefingers, and exhibited them to me as our token that Mrs. Joe was in a cross-temper.


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[Assistant] This was so much her normal state, that Joe and I would often, for weeks together, be, as to our fingers, like monumental crusaders as to their legs. We were to have a superb dinner, consisting of a leg of pickled pork and greens, and a pair of roast stuffed fowls. A handsome mince pie had been made yesterday morning, which accounted for the mincemeat not being missed, and the pudding was already on the boil.


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[Assistant] These extensive arrangements occasioned us to be cut off unceremoniously in respect of breakfast.


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[Assistant] So we had our slicers served out, as if we were two thousand troops on a forced march, instead of a man and boy at home.


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[Assistant] And we took gulps of milk and water with apologetic countenances from a jug on the dresser. In the meantime, Mrs. Joe put clean white curtains up, and tacked a new flowered flounce across the wide chimney to replace the old one.


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[Assistant] And uncovered the little state parlour across the passage, which was never uncovered at any other time.


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[Assistant] But past the rest of the year in a cool haze of silver paper.


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[Assistant] Which even extended to the four little white crockery poodles on the mantel-shelf.


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[Assistant] Each with a black nose and a basket of flowers in his mouth, and each the counterpart of the other.


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[Assistant] My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously. That is to say, Joe and I were going.


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[Assistant] In his working clothes Joe was a well-knit, characteristic-looking blacksmith. In his holiday clothes he was more like a scarecrow in good circumstances than anything else.


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[Assistant] Nothing that he wore then fitted him, or seemed to belong to him, and everything that he wore then grazed him. On the present festification he emerged from his room, when the blithe bells were going, the picture of misery, in a full suit of Sunday penitentials.


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[Assistant] As to me, I think my sister must have had some general idea that I was a young offender, whom an accoutreur policeman had taken up on my birthday, and delivered over to her, to be dealt with according to the outraged majesty of the law.


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[Assistant] I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuading arguments of my best friends, even when I was taken to have a new suit of clothes.


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[Assistant] The tailor had orders to make them like a kind of reformatory, and on no account to let me have the free use of my limbs.


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[Assistant] Joe and I going to church, therefore, must have been a moving spectacle for compassionate minds. Yet what I suffered outside was nothing to what I underwent within. The terrors that had assailed me whenever Mrs. Joe had gone near the pantry or out of the room


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[Assistant] I pondered whether the church would be powerful enough to shield me from the vengeance of the terrible young man if I divulged to that establishment. I conceived the idea at the time when the bans were read, and when the clergyman said, Ye are now to declare it.


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[Assistant] Would be the time for me to rise and propose a private conference in the vestry. I am far from being sure.


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[Assistant] That I might not have astonished our small congregation by resorting to this extreme measure, but for its being Christmas Day and no Sunday.


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[Assistant] Mr. Wopsle, the clerk at church, was to dine with us, and Mr. Hubble, the wheelwright, and Mrs. Hubble.


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[Assistant] And Uncle Pumblechook, Joe's uncle, but Mrs. Joe appropriated him, who was a well-to-do corn chandler in the nearest town, and drove his own chaise cart. The dinner hour was half past one.


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[Assistant] Mr. Wopsle, united to a Roman nose and a large shining bald forehead, had a deep voice, which he was uncommonly proud of. Indeed, it was understood among his acquaintance, that if you could only give him his head, he would read the clergyman into fits.


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[Assistant] He himself confessed that if the church was thrown open, meaning to competition, he would not despair of making his mark in it. The church not being thrown open, he was, as I have said, our clerk. But he punished the amens tremendously, and when he gave out the psalm, always giving the whole verse, he looked all round the congregation first, as much as to say, you have heard my friend overhead,


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[Assistant] I opened the door to the company, making believe that it was a habit of ours to open that door, and I opened it first to Mr. Wopsle, next to Mr. and Mrs. Hubbell, and last of all to Uncle Pumblechook.


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[Assistant] Said Uncle Pumblechook, a large, hard-breathing, middle-aged, slow man, with a mouth like a fish, dull staring eyes, and sandy hair standing upright on his head, so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked, and had that moment come too.


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[Assistant] Every Christmas day he presented himself as a profound novelty, with exactly the same words, and carrying the two bottles like dumbbells. Every Christmas day Mrs. Joe replied as she now replied,


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[Assistant] Every Christmas day he retorted as he now retorted, It's no more than your merits and


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[Assistant] Now, are you all bobbish, and how's six penneth of hapens? Meaning me. We dined on these occasions in the kitchen.


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[Assistant] Which was a change, very like Joe's change from his working clothes to his Sunday dress.


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[Assistant] My sister was uncommonly lively on the present occasion, and indeed, was generally more gracious in the society of Mrs. Hubble than in other company.


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[Assistant] I remember Mrs. Hubble as a little curly, sharp-edged person in sky blue, who held a conventionally juvenile position, because she had married Mr. Hubble, I don't know at what remote period, when she was much younger than he.


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[Assistant] I remember Mr. Hubbell as a tough, high-shouldered, stooping old man, of a sawdusty fragrance, with his legs extraordinarily wide apart.


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[Assistant] So that in my short days I always saw some miles of open country between them when I met him coming up the lane. Among this good company I should have felt myself, even if I hadn't robbed the pantry, in a false position.


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[Assistant] Not because I was squeezed in at an acute angle of the tablecloth, with the table in my chest, and the pumblechookian elbow in my eye, nor because I was not allowed to speak. I didn't want to speak.


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[Assistant] Nor because I was regaled with the scaly tips of the drumsticks of the fowls, and with those obscure corners of pork of which the pig, when living, had had the least reason to be vain. No, I should not have minded that, if they would only have left me alone. But they wouldn't leave me alone.


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[Assistant] They seem to think the opportunity lost, if they fail to point the conversation at me every now and then, and stick the point into me.


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[Assistant] I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena. I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads. It began the moment we sat down to dinner.


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[Assistant] Mr. Wopsle, said Grace, with theatrical declamation,


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[Assistant] As it now appears to me, something like a religious cross of the Ghost in Hamlet was Richard III, and ended with the very proper aspiration that we might be truly grateful, upon which my sister fixed me with her eye, and said in a low, reproachful voice, Do you hear that? Be grateful.


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[Assistant] And contemplating me with a mournful presentiment that I should come to know good, asked,


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[Assistant] This moral mystery seemed too much for the company, until Mr. Hubbell tersely sold it by saying, ''Naturally, Wishes.'' Everybody then murmured, ''True.''


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[Assistant] And looked at me in a particularly unpleasant and personal manner.


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[Assistant] Joe's station and influence was something feebler, if possible, when there was company, than when there was none.


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[Assistant] But he always aided and comforted me when he could, in some way of his own, and he always did so at dinner-time, by giving me gravy, if there were any. There being plenty of gravy to-day, Joe spooned into my plate, at this point about a half pint. A little later on in the dinner, Mr. Wopsle reviewed the sermon with some severity.


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[Assistant] He remarked that he considered the subject of the day's homily ill-chosen.


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[Assistant] Which was the less excusable, he added, when there were so many subjects going about. True again.


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[Assistant] And I knew he was going to lug me in before he said it.


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[Assistant] Said my sister to me in a severe parenthesis. Joe gave me some more gravy.


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[Assistant] Swine, pursued Mr. Wopsle in his deepest voice, and pointing his fork at my blushes, as if he were mentioning my Christian name. Swine were the companions of the prodigal. The gluttony of swine is put before us as an example to the young.


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[Assistant] I thought this pretty well in him, who had been praising up the pork for being so plump and juicy. What is detestable in a pig is more detestable in a boy. Or girl, suggested Mr. Hubble. Of course, or girl, Mr. Hubble, assented Mr. Wopsle, rather irritably. But there is no girl present.


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[Assistant] Besides," said Mr. Pumblechook, turning sharp on me.


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[Assistant] Well, but I mean a four-footed squeaker," said Mr. Pumblechook, if you had been born such.


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[Assistant] Dunstable the butcher would have come up to you as you lay in your straw, and he would have whipped you under his left arm, and with his right he would have tucked up his frock to get a penknife from out of his waistcoat pocket, and he would have shed your blood and had your life. No bringing up by hand then, not a bit of it. Joe offered me more gravy, which I was afraid to take.


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[Assistant] And then entered on a fearful catalogue of all the illnesses I had been guilty of, and all the acts of sleeplessness I had committed, and all the high places I had tumbled from, and all the low places I had tumbled into, and all the injuries I had done myself, and all the times she had wished me in my grave, and I had contumaciously refused to go there. I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much with their noses.


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[Assistant] Perhaps they became the rustless people they were in consequence. Anyhow.


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[Assistant] Mr. Wopsle's Roman nose so aggravated me, during the recital of my misdemeanours, that I should have liked to pull it until he howled.


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[Assistant] But all I had endured up to this time was nothing in comparison with the awful feelings that took possession of me when the paws was broken, which ensued upon my sister's recital, and in which paws everybody had looked at me, as I felt painfully conscious, with indignation and abhorrence. Yet, said Mr. Pumblechook,


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[Assistant] Leading the company gently back to the theme from which they had strayed. Pork, regarded as wild, is rich too, ain't it? Have a little brandy, uncle.


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[Assistant] Oh heavens, it had come at last. He would find it was weak. He would say it was weak. Then I was lost. I held tight to the leg of the table under the cloth with both hands and awaited my fate. My sister went for the stone bottle.


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[Assistant] Came back with the stone bottle, and poured his brandy out, no one else taking any. The wretched man trifled with his glass, took it up, looked at it through the light, put it down, prolonged my misery.


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[Assistant] All this time Mrs. Joe and Joe were briskly clearing the table for the pie and pudding.


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[Assistant] I couldn't keep my eyes off him. All was holding tight by the leg of the table with my hands and feet. I saw the miserable creature finger his glass playfully. Take it up. Smile. Throw his head back. And drink the brandy off.


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[Assistant] Instantly afterwards, the company was seized with unspeakable consternation, owing to his springing to his feet, turning round several times in an appalling spasmodic whooping cough-dance, and rushing out the door.


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[Assistant] He then became visible through the window, violently plunging and expectorating, making the most hideous faces, and apparently out of his mind. I held on tight, while Mrs. Joe and Joe ran to him. I didn't know how I had done it, but I had no doubt I had murdered him somehow. In my dreadful situation, it was a relief when he was brought back.


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[Assistant] Anne, surveying the company all round, as if they had disagreed with him, sank down into his chair, with one significant gasp. Ta! I had filled up the bottle from the tar-water jug. I knew he would be worse by and by. I moved the table, like a medium of the present day, by the vigour of my unseen hold upon it.


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[Assistant] But Uncle Pumblechook, who is omnipotent in that kitchen, wouldn't hear the word.


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[Assistant] Wouldn't hear of the subject, imperiously waved it all away with his hand, and asked for hot gin and water.


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[Assistant] My sister, who had begun to be alarmingly meditative, had to employ herself actively in getting the gin, the hot water, the sugar, and the lemon peel, and mixing them. For the time being, at least, I was saved. I still held on to the leg of the table, but clutched it now with the fervour of gratitude.


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[Assistant] By degrees I became calm enough to release my grasp and partake of pudding. Mr. Pumblechook partook of pudding. All partook of pudding. The course terminated.


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[Assistant] I clutched the leg of the table again immediately, and pressed it to my bosom, as if it had been the companion of my youth and friend of my soul. I foresaw what was coming, and I felt at this time I really was gone.


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[Assistant] The company moment of compliments. Uncle Pumblechook


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[Assistant] Sensible of having deserved well of his fellow-creatures, said, quite pervaciously, all things considered,


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[Assistant] My sister went out to get it. I heard her steps proceed to the pantry. I saw Mr. Pumblechook balance his knife.


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[Assistant] I saw reawakening appetite in the Roman nostrils of Mr. Wopsle. I heard Mr. Hubble remark that


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[Assistant] I have never been absolutely certain whether I uttered a shrill yell of terror merely in spirit or in the bodily hearing of the company.


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[Assistant] But I ran no further than the house door, for there I ran head foremost into a party of soldiers with their muskets, one of whom held out a pair of handcuffs to me, saying, Here you are, look sharp, come on.


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[Assistant] Oh Pop, you say I have brains that make me sit around and twiddle my thumb.


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[Assistant] Pop says spooks can't hurt you if you crush your fingers and your eyes.


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[Assistant] Billy, I mean my clothes. I bought a crownless hat, and a backless dress, and some toeless shoes.


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[Assistant] Manipulation, whatever you want to call it, it definitely works.


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[Assistant] They, you know, told Mike in name of certain terms how he felt. I remember it involved body parts and where he could put certain things and all kinds of other things.


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[Assistant] After the game, I was just like, here we go again. Just the way we lost. We lost like we just kinda given up and Keenan, it seemed like he had lost control of the bench. It seemed like Panic had


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[Assistant] There it is, Marc Messier, he's gonna win it for us. Both nothing. And then the devils take it down all the way down the other end of the ice.


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[Assistant] And honestly, at that point, I really thought, maybe we are gonna win this.


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[Assistant] Okay guys in this video I'm gonna go over classes and objects and it's probably the most important video in the whole class because when you write VBA code all you're doing is working with objects and you need to know what an object is in order to understand


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[Assistant] This, the class comes before the object. You could think of it like this. Uhm, a class is a blueprint for an object.


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[Assistant] And once you have the class, you can create an object in the same way that if you're an architect,


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[Assistant] If you want this example, if you're an architect, you need to have some paper with the drawings and the specifications of a house.


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[Assistant] In order to go out into the real world and purchase material and shovels and hammers to go build the house. You need to have a blueprint first. And that's all.


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[Assistant] That's all a class is, it's just a blueprint for an object. In the same way that a architect would have a blueprint for a house. So we have to write this blueprint. So let's get started by, uh, writing


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[Assistant] A company or anything. You could pick anything and you could write a class for it.


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[Assistant] Because all you're doing is writing a blueprint. And the blueprint is going to be composed of sub procedures and functions, which we already have seen. Uh, it's going to be composed of properties.


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[Assistant] And we know what properties are, they're just attributes of an object. So let's write a class for a basketball team. So I have my class module here and I have a class in it. If you don't have that,


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[Assistant] If you deleted this, because we inserted this earlier in videos, go up here to insert and do insert class module. You should get something that looks like this. And then go to the properties window.


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[Assistant] And I could change the name of it. So I'm going to name this class, uh, basketball team.


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[Assistant] And once I have this class here called basketball team, I'm going to double click it and now I can start


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[Assistant] Defining my class, basically building the blueprint.


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[Assistant] And next thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna make this a very simple class.


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[Assistant] My blueprint for my basketball team is just gonna be, is just gonna say that my basketball team needs to have a name. That's all I'm gonna do. I'm gonna write a blueprint for my basketball team that's, that says, uh, this team needs to have a name. So to do that, we are going to, uh, write some properties for this class. The first thing we're gonna do,


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[Assistant] Is declare variable called team name and I'm going to do private. Uh, I'm going to, instead of using dim, I'm going to use the word private.


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[Assistant] Because I don't want this variable, which I'm going to call team name here.


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[Assistant] I don't want this variable team name to be accessible outside of this class. So that's why I put the private in front of team name instead of using dim. And this is just a variable that's going to hold the name of our team. Once I have that, I want to write a property.


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[Assistant] Look what happens. So there's a bunch of keywords out front. Public, property, and get.


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[Assistant] The, and then the data type of the property. So here's our property name.


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[Assistant] It's gonna hold the name of our basketball team. It is a string. Uh, it's a string. The datatype is string.


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[Assistant] When you want to get the, get the name of the team, this is the property you're going to use. And it's, it's, we'll see how straightforward this is when we, when we, uh, access this property.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but right now, all we need to do is do this. Name is equal to team name.


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[Assistant] So this is a property and now we have a property called name and it's


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[Assistant] What we can do with this already, I mean this is a very short class, all we have is one property.


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[Assistant] And we can see what we can do already. So I'm gonna insert a module, and I'm just gonna name this module, uh, Class, Classes.


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[Assistant] Basketball team. Notice what I want to do is I want to create an object of this class.


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[Assistant] So to do that, I just do dim bbteam as, and then the dropdown pops up. And because I just wrote this class, it pops up in the dropdown. So I could double click it. And now I have declared that this, this variable here, bbteam has, is going to be of data type basketball team. And here's the basketball team. So this variable is going to have access to all the properties in here and all the functions in here and all the sub procedures in here.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and like I said before, now we have a blueprint. We already have a blueprint. Our blueprint simply says,


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[Assistant] We have a name for a basketball team. This is the blueprint, right? A name for the basketball team. But now we need an object to work with. In order to get the object to work with,


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[Assistant] You have to set BBTeam, this variable, equal to a new, uh, basketball team. Like this. So this actually


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[Assistant] Create the object in the computer's memory. When this code runs, when it hits this line, this is going to what's called instantiate this object.


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[Assistant] So we have this line of code, which is really important. If you under understand what's


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[Assistant] Going on in this video, the most important line is probably this line of code. Because what's happening is, you are...


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[Assistant] What you are, when you execute this, you are building a house. You know, you're taking a blueprint, you're taking a blueprint here. Here's my blueprint and I'm making it into an object in your computer's memory. So this instantiates the object.


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[Assistant] This becomes an instance of the class. That's what instantiates means. So how can we use this?


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[Assistant] We can just put a message box, message box and we can do BB team and look what happens. So now when we have BB team, if I type BB team and put this dot here, I get this property. See that finger with the, with the paper underneath. If I double click it, you know,


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[Assistant] Now I can put a, I can display the name of the team in a message box. But what happened here is pretty cool. Uhm, I wrote a blueprint for a basketball team that has a property in it for, for a name.


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[Assistant] And I can access that using this little dot here. This is called the dot operator. And you can access the members of, uh, a class.


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[Assistant] More specifically, you can access the properties of this object by using the dot operator.


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[Assistant] Whatever properties this object has, you just put the dot after, dot after the object, and then it'll pop up.


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[Assistant] The, the properties will pop up and if you have functions, the function names will prop up. Um, so now we can run this and if we, if we run this code, if I just hit enter, it's blank. Why is it blank? So it's blank because we haven't, we haven't given the team a name, right? If I go back to my blueprint, you know, this property,


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[Assistant] It, it gets the name. This keyword here is taking what's ever in this team name variable and assigning it to name.


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[Assistant] And then it's going to put it in the message box, but this team name variable never got populated. So to populate the team name variable, you need a different type of, uh, name, a different type of the name property called a let, uh, a let property. So all I did is


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[Assistant] I just changed the get to a let so that now I can assign something to the name property. So what I do now is do param underscore name as string and I don't need to do this string anymore over here because this property


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[Assistant] Is gonna take a parameter and assign it to this team name variable. So what I do here is just do this. Uh, team name is equal to param underscore name.


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[Assistant] Like this. So now I'm able to set the name of the team. Notice the only difference here, the only differences here are, uh, this property, you know, they both have the same name. This property is called name, but it has two, uh, different versions, a version to get the name that just returns whatever's in this team name variable and, and puts it, you know, you assign


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[Assistant] The name of the, of the team and to do that, I changed the get to a let down here and I added a parameter so that I can pass in something and then set the team name variable up here. So this sets the team name and this gets the team name. So if I go back to my, uh, module now, I should be able to do something like this, uh, BB team.


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[Assistant] Dot name is equal to Lakers. So now when I run, I'll just press F5, I get Lakers in a message box. So that is essentially what an object is and what a class is. And the critical points are a class is a blueprint. You can put anything in a class. Mostly they're going to be properties like we did here.


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[Assistant] They're going to be functions, which we already know what a function is or sub procedures, um, or


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[Assistant] Uh, let's see. Well, yes, those are the main three, properties, functions, sub procedures, and then when you want to access the members


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[Assistant] Like you would a variable, but now the data type is going to be the name of your class and then you have to do this line, the most important line. You set the object to a new basketball team and that actually creates the object in memory on your computer. Once you do that, you can access the properties using this dot operator and you can set the property here and then you can act, you can get the property here. So,


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[Assistant] So notice once I, once I step through at this point down here, BB team, it has, it has two properties. Uhm, name and team name.


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[Assistant] Cause if I go back here, there's team name and there's name. And if I continue to step through.


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[Assistant] I'm using the let name property here and param name is assigned Lakers.


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[Assistant] Team name is now Lakers. So this uses the let, the let property.


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[Assistant] So I just want to make note of that, that this uses, uses let, and this one's going to use get.


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[Assistant] So if I step through, this one uses the get, the get one.


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[Assistant] And all this does is now that team name is Lakers, it's gonna return the name Lakers.


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[Assistant] So there Laker shows up in a message box.


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[Assistant] Only you don't have to write the application class, right? Uh, you don't have to write the property


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[Assistant] So, if you just do a message box, msgbox.


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[Assistant] If you write, if you just write this line, there's all kinds of code that you didn't write that look very similar to the code that we just wrote.


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[Assistant] But we didn't have to write any of it. Microsoft already wrote it and that's why VBA is so powerful because Microsoft...


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[Assistant] Has written all this code, all these classes with all these properties and all these, you know, functions and sub procedures in these classes.


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[Assistant] That allows you to just access them using this dot operator. And once you access them, you pretty much can do anything you want with Excel. And let's just run this. And now I get Lakers and I get Microsoft Excel, but I didn't write any of this. I didn't write, I didn't write the code that, um,


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[Assistant] That has a name property in the same way that our basketball team object has a name property. But notice this took just, you know, less than less than 20 characters.


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[Assistant] Whereas what I had to do took a lot of time, a lot of effort. I had to know the syntax and all the stuff. That's why you're not going to write classes very frequently. You're just going to, you're just going to access


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[Assistant] Uh, properties and sub procedures and functions of objects that already exist. And those objects come from classes that are already written. There's hundreds and hundreds of classes.


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[Assistant] That are already written that have properties in them, functions in them, sub procedures, events, uhm, and you don't have to write any of this stuff. So this video is really important because you get to see


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[Assistant] Sort of what's going on when you write VBA code. Here's some VBA code that you would maybe write, uhm, and what's really happening behind the scenes is that


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[Assistant] Some Microsoft developer wrote something that looks more like this.


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[Assistant] And the great part about VBA is that you don't need to write this class or these classes.


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[Assistant] Because 99.9% of the time all you're going to be doing is accessing, uh,


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[Assistant] Using this dot operator to access properties and sub procedures and functions of objects.


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[Assistant] So you're just going to be using, you're going to be using objects that are already created. You don't have to create classes 99% of the time. So, hopefully that's an introduction to what


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[Assistant] And object is and what a class is. The main takeaways are, uh, VBA is so powerful because you don't have to write these things. I just, I put this video up


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[Assistant] Because it's important to see what a class is and what an object is. But it's more important to know that


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[Assistant] Accessing the properties and functions and, and sub procedures of those, of those objects.


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[Assistant] So that's it for this video. In the next video I will show you where you can see all those hundreds of classes.


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[Assistant] And all those thousands of properties and thousands of sub procedures and all this stuff. And then we can really get cooking in this class because now all you're gonna be doing is accessing, you know, finding out which object you wanna use.


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[Assistant] And using this property or that function or this sub procedure.


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[Assistant] What you get with VBA is hundreds of classes and thousands of properties and thousands of sub procedures in those classes and we'll look at that in the next video.


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[Assistant] That little fool horse will want to stick his nose right in the wind and fight back.


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[Assistant] This is no time to discourage him, just when he's beginning to take an interest in the ranch. Besides, breaking goblins very often make a man of them.


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[Assistant] Now, I'd like to see that horse run as much as anybody. But with incidentals and everything, it would cost four or five hundred dollars.


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[Assistant] Mister, uh, sergeant tells me he could use a couple of good hands at his place.


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[Assistant] Tan linda. Tan increíble. Tu cuerpo.


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[Assistant] Until we people realize that society has the means and the knowledge.


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[Assistant] Oh, I enjoy doing this. Oh, I like to get away sometimes.


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[Assistant] Well, there's some dear rambles into the country. Lot of young folks go, you know, from Labour Club. Why don't you come with us sometime?


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[Assistant] Us living so near, and, uh, this is our first time we've spoken.


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[Assistant] All right, I'm coming. I've got to go now. But I shan't forget. Next time there's a Sunday outing, I'll let you know. Good night, Sally.


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[Assistant] Think of all those poor people in Hunky Park. The trouble is they never get a chance to see how good life can be.


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[Assistant] Well, Sal, here we are. All good things come to an end.


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[Assistant] I've lost my job. They gave me the sack yesterday.


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[Assistant] Myself, I can't go on alone.


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[Assistant] That's what's caused all this. Every man out for himself. And let everybody else look after themselves.


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[Assistant] About people like us, living like we do and wanting better things. You know, nice houses and a steady job. Why can't we have them?


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[Assistant] Dreaming about things you can't have don't get you anywhere. Does it, Larry? Besides, it isn't where you live. It's who you live with.


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[Assistant] Breaking up. That means the thaw is here. From now on, it's gonna melt pretty fast. You mean this iceberg too?


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[Assistant] These badmads. Guards go now? Yeaah, get rid of your guards.


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[Assistant] This is Dr. House? Yea, yea. We're here to keep undercover. I'll drop you off in Bankhead. And you'd better put these on.


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[Assistant] Come on, let's put our cards on the table and face the fact.


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[Assistant] Think for a minute what this invention will mean to the country.


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[Assistant] Wine. My oldest lad's gonna get wed. Has he to keep me and my old woman? Never in your life. May as well turn this out and get straightened up, don't we? Who's gonna keep us?


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[Assistant] And I kept respectable for her, and god knows I've nearly been driven to drink with things. And now my own daughter tells me she's gone on the loose. I'm proud of her.


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[Assistant] And make respectable folks like me and your mother the talk of the neighborhood. Damn you, you're not fit to be a daughter of mine.


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[Assistant] A mother of five daughters who are old enough to marry also thinks a lot about marriage.


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[Assistant] She will surely think of him as a future husband for one of her daughters.


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[Assistant] This was the view of Mrs. Bennet of Longbourn House, which is near Meryton in Hertfordshire.


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[Assistant] Mrs. Bennett had heard the news in February 1810.


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[Assistant] Do you know that someone is finally renting Netherfield Park? Don't you want to know who is there? cried his wife impatiently


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[Assistant] Netherfield is being rented by Mr. Bingley. He is a young, wealthy man from the North. You don't say, Mr. Bennett replied.


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[Assistant] Oh, single, my dear! cried Mrs. Bennet excitedly. What a good fortune for a


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[Assistant] Oh, don't be so difficult, my dear Mr. Bennet, replied his wife.


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[Assistant] I'm just thinking that perhaps Mr. Bingley might marry one of our daughters.


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[Assistant] It's likely that if he meets one of our girls, he'll fall in love.


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[Assistant] So, you must go and pay him a visit, soon.


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[Assistant] It's the only respectable way for an introduction. Mr. Bennett stood up and looked at his wife.


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[Assistant] But what about the future of your daughters? cried his wife, shocked.


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[Assistant] Said Mr. Bennet. How difficult you are! She cried.


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[Assistant] I cannot take the girls to visit him unless you have already met him. It's the only correct way.


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[Assistant] You will not do such a thing! cried his wife angrily.


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[Assistant] Anyway, Elizabeth is no better than our other daughters.


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[Assistant] Mr. Bennet, how you make me worry. Sometimes I feel you even enjoy it. You don't care about my poor nerves.


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[Assistant] Mr. Bennett walked over to the door of his library.


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[Assistant] Oh, said Mrs. Bennet. She was beginning to cry. How you enjoy making me worry.


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[Assistant] You have no thought for your daughters. Five of them. Five. And Jane in her twenty-third year.


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[Assistant] He said, and the library door closed behind him.


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[Assistant] The Bennett family met together in the drawing room after dinner that evening. Four of Mr. Bennett's daughters were quite pretty. Jane was the most beautiful of them.


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[Assistant] Also, Elizabeth's fine dark eyes seemed full of light. Kitty was their 17 year old daughter. She was pretty in a thin way. Lydia was almost 16.


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[Assistant] And she was tall, with healthy, red colored cheeks.


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[Assistant] Nineteen-year-old Mary was the only plain member of the family. She was thin, round-shouldered, and nearsighted. Because she read too many books, she had to wear glasses.


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[Assistant] Elizabeth was busy working on a hat when Mr. Bennet said to her,


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[Assistant] And how are we to know whether Mr. Bingley likes it or not? asked her mother. If we cannot visit him. Don't worry, Mama. You forget that we shall see him at the town meeting. Elizabeth said.


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[Assistant] Lady Lucas will introduce us to Mr. Bingley if you ask her, said Jane. Lady Lucas, said Mrs. Bennet, without any hope, has her own daughter. She'll want him to meet her.


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[Assistant] That's not a very nice thing to say about her, Mama, said Elizabeth.


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[Assistant] Mrs. Bennet threw up her arms and turned angrily to Elizabeth. Do not speak back to me, Elizabeth! She cried. My nerves will not stand it!


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[Assistant] How can we convince you to visit Mr. Bingley, Papa?" asked Elizabeth nicely. She hoped to change her father's mind. Please do," said Jane. Oh, yes, sir, I beg you," requested Lydia. Lead me out of this request, Papa," said Mary coldly. I don't wish to go chasing after Mr. Bingley. Mr. Bennet looked from one daughter to the other.


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[Assistant] He said, You see? cried Mrs. Bennet.


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[Assistant] He doesn't care. Oh, my poor head.


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[Assistant] But Mrs. Bennet's complaining had no effect on her husband.


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[Assistant] Since she was still upset, she began to yell at one of her daughters.


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[Assistant] By heavens! Stop coughing, kitty. You will tear my poor nerves apart.


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[Assistant] Do you think I cough because I like to, Mama? said Kitty.


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[Assistant] No, no, cried his wife. No more about Mr. Bingley.


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[Assistant] Said her husband. He was enjoying himself very much.


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[Assistant] exclaimed Jane, Elizabeth, Kitty, and Lydia, all at the same time.


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[Assistant] But my dear, you said so strongly that you would not go, said his wife.


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[Assistant] I knew you loved your daughters too much to miss the opportunity to meet with such a man of good fortune.


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[Assistant] What a good joke to play on us. Oh my dear Mr. Bennet, how very happy I am.


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[Assistant] Said Mr. Bennet as he left the room. He was very tired after dealing with his wife.


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[Assistant] What a fine, thoughtful father you have, girls," said Mrs. Bennet after the door was shut.


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[Assistant] For the rest of the evening, the girls and their mother wondered how soon it would be before Mr. Bingley returned their father's visit.


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[Assistant] The county fair. As American as America itself.


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[Assistant] And nowhere has the county fair recorded itself more deeply into the consciousness and life of America than in Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky.


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[Assistant] Here, year after year, are assembled the best horses that America produces. Here, the trotting horse is king.


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[Assistant] And the harness race, the supreme event of the peaceful, prosperous year. Here racing is not for the great stables alone.


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[Assistant] It's the sport in which every man may enter on an equal footing. The county squire, or his farmhand.


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[Assistant] Yes here, the man with one horse, which he himself has trained, which he himself may drive, is on an equal footing with every other entry. It's the sport of gentleman racing.


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[Assistant] It takes a village to maintain and operate a place like Mount Rainier National Park. What role will you play? Who will be the future of Mount Rainier National Park?


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[Assistant] Some of them bad. But human feelings that we can all share through the miracle of television. Here's something I've got a feeling about. The Trump Train.


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[Assistant] Yesterday, our President-elect summoned all the big wigs of TV news. Folks like CNN President Jeff Zucker and NBC anchor Lester Holt to Trump Tower. Naturally, they all assumed they were being named Secretary of State, but...


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[Assistant] Yeah, NBC, come on. Stop using unflattering pictures of Donald Trump. I mean, he's so photogenic.


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[Assistant] Of course, when not berating the media from his golden tower, the President-elect has been busy filling his cabinet. So far, we know his pick for Attorney General, Alabama Senator and Albino Smurf Jeff Sessions.


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[Assistant] If Senator Sessions becomes Attorney General, he would be in charge of enforcing our nation's civil rights laws. And if you want to know where he stands on civil rights, there's a little hint in his full name, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions the third. I say to you sir, I do declare.


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[Assistant] Of the Birmingham McCotton-Gins, I challenge you to a duel.


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[Assistant] In fact, during the Reagan administration, Sessions was denied a judicial appointment over allegations of racism. Among other things, a coworker claimed Sessions said he was okay with the Klan, quote, until I learned they smoked pot.


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[Assistant] He might be the only politician in history to go down as thinking the Klan is too chill.


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[Assistant] And Trump's front-runner to lead the Department of Homeland Security appears to be Kansas Secretary of State and middle school football coach who's not allowed on the field anymore.


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[Assistant] Chris Kobach. When Kobach met with Trump, something tells me he came prepared with a strategic plan for the first 365 days. And by something tells me, I mean this picture where he's clearly holding his strategic plan for the first 365 days.


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[Assistant] Well, that's Homeland Security. The only way those plans could be safer is if he stored them on his private email server.


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[Assistant] During the campaign, Donald Trump promised to do a lot of things as president, but maybe the strangest and strongest was his promise, his pledge, his rallying cry to jail Hillary Clinton.


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[Assistant] Everything that seems important in pregnancy.


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[Assistant] Don't worry, laughed Fagin, pulling his chair closer. You're lucky it was only me who heard you.


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[Assistant] I didn't take it, said Noah quickly. It was the woman who did it.


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[Assistant] It doesn't matter who did it, my dear, replied Fagin, looking quickly at Charlotte. Because I'm in that business myself, and the people in my house as well. I can introduce you to the right people if you're interested. You both look like good workers. Charlotte and Noah felt a mixture of fear and pleasure. What would you want me to do? asked Noah. Something light, if possible, he added.


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[Assistant] So they began a prasadam distribution program which continued without, uh, stoppage all the way up until today. Uh, it's called the Krishna Lunch.


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[Assistant] Developed a hybrid program called the Bhakti Academy. Now I should mention that


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[Assistant] Krishna House grew very much like ISKCON in America grew in the 70s. Many devotees joined and they had all kinds of dynamic programs.


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[Assistant] So now the Alachua Temple is very large. The community has about a thousand members.


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[Assistant] Yes, there are two schools that are open to the devotee community and a great diversity of projects going on there.


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[Assistant] And, uh, has a separate program where we cooperate together.


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[Assistant] But the Krishna house had continued the Krishna lunch.


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[Assistant] Uh, the Krishna house, however, really had no congregation. It was simply a prasadam distribution center. And the, the residential membership had dwindled to very little.


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[Assistant] That started with three students, next year it was six and twelve. Now we have about thirty to thirty-five students most of the year.


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[Assistant] So what we've discovered at Krishna House is that if the proper principles are applied, young Westerners, educated Westerners,


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[Assistant] So that has been a wonderful experience for me as a career preacher in North America. Uh, I now have learned how


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[Assistant] We can have the same sort of results that he had back in the 70s. It's not drawn that part of ISKCON's history. It's just that we moved ahead


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[Assistant] A lot of cultural overlays and then when Srila Prabhupada departed the


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[Assistant] So by just going, turning the clock back to the 60s, the late 60s rather than the mid 70s.


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[Assistant] Bright, enthusiastic, educated young men and women who have made a real contribution to developing Krishna consciousness already in North America.


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[Assistant] Practices and brought them back to America.


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[Assistant] And that was a new threshold of cultural standards for the devotees, which were embraced very freely.


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[Assistant] But the impact on newcomers was kind of an unintended consequence.


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[Assistant] Now, not only a newcomer would need to follow 4 regulator principles, enchant 16 rounds,


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[Assistant] But they would be expected to dress, uh, strictly in the traditional style. They would adopt cultural mannerisms, speech that became part of the lexicon of the Krishna community.


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[Assistant] Yes. So, so think, think Dr. Prabhupada on 26th Second Avenue.


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[Assistant] Uh, participating, uh, actively, you would expect to wear these clothes, uh, have a shaven head. Uh, that was one visible difference.


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[Assistant] So in 26th Second Avenue, there was no such requirement, no such expectation. He simply said, you just come.


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[Assistant] And the devotees accepted that. If they wished, they could also wear


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[Assistant] Indian style clothing. But they were not obliged. So I'm trying to help you understand that distinction.


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[Assistant] Okay. That's the difference from 1967 to 1977.


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[Assistant] By 1977, it was not an option. You're going to be a devotee, you're going to dress this way.


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[Assistant] ISKCON is a work in progress, even now, but very much then.


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[Assistant] And as you recall, Prabhupada would gradually introduce various things. And sometimes he would try things.


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[Assistant] And then if it didn't work, he would abandon them and do something else. For example, he established a Gurukula in Dallas.


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[Assistant] But the, the government authorities were not supportive, so he transferred the Gurukula to Vrindavan. Yeah.


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[Assistant] There are many examples, many examples. He was not static. He would try things. If they didn't work, he would try something else. So,


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[Assistant] There's a word called ideation where you freeze a moment in time and say this is how it should always be forever and ever. So when Srila Prabhupada left, uh, physically in 1977,


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[Assistant] So there were not very experienced, mature people in charge when he turned the movement over to their care.


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[Assistant] Therefore, this sense of ideation was there where we're frozen. Okay, this is how it is now. This is how it should always be.


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[Assistant] Let me give you another example. You remember Srila Prabhupada's declaration at the end of his physical manifest pastimes. He wanted to go back to America to establish Varnashram.


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[Assistant] Abhiram Prabhu was Prabhupada's traveling companion at that time and one of his entourage.


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[Assistant] But we're regularly proving unqualified to do so.


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[Assistant] The other 50%, he said, I've established 50%.


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[Assistant] Book distribution. Now let me establish the other 50%. My work is not finished.


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[Assistant] So, what was that for? Well, this was to accommodate people for a life in Krishna consciousness.


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[Assistant] So, uh, my friend Satya Prabhu and I were on our way to Gitanagarhi to see Srila Prabhupada there, but as you know, he did not make it. He had to go back to Vrindavan after only going as far as London. So, what?


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[Assistant] Exactly, exactly. And Krishna House has been successful because we turned the clock back ten years and did the things that Prabhupada did.


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[Assistant] On the Lower East Side in 1967, those things still work for bringing in Westerners.


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[Assistant] But what we were doing in 1977, and we've been trying to do ever since, that has proven to be a failure, as far as recruiting Westerners is concerned. It has diminished to practically nothing.


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[Assistant] And that's, as, as he writes in the fourth canto, that's to be expected. And then the, the GBC kind of righted the ship, has been working ever since then to get the proper juxtaposition between the authority of the GBC and the authority of gurus, uhm,


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[Assistant] And as a result, the revenues for the temples also diminished tremendously. The temples were established by the hard work of these young recruits going out and selflessly raising money, collecting money, mostly through book sales, often through selling of other paraphernalia.


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[Assistant] In most cases went on to establish their own grihastha lives. And there were no replacements coming up behind them.


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[Assistant] So these successful, very highly educated people appreciated the temples and began coming.


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[Assistant] And being intelligent they could see that the, the, uh, support of the temple was, temples were floundering in some cases or, or shaky.


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[Assistant] And even those devotees who are from the Indian congregation who are now leaders in our temples are asking, how do we reach the Westerners?


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[Assistant] They see. They don't want it to be an ethnic religion, because we all understand this was not Lord Jaitanya's vision.


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[Assistant] The antithesis is that those of Indian descent will be Vaishnavas more easily.


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[Assistant] So the synthesis will be those who are of Indian heritage, work,


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[Assistant] With those of non-Indian heritage together to make the movement widely accessible and appealing to the whole population.


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[Assistant] In non-profit management, the principle is the more that your non-profit organization looks like the community in which it exists, the more successful it is.


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[Assistant] In other words, if your non-profit is relevant to all sorts of different


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[Assistant] Groups and subsets of a local community, then you are doing well.


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[Assistant] So we all recognize that it's very limiting to have our, our devotee communities primarily from one segment of society. So our, our, our


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[Assistant] But Prabhupada of Indian descent did. It can appeal to all cross-sections of society.


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[Assistant] Out of thousands of people, there'll be one who is interested in spiritual life, you know? And those...


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[Assistant] They come from all walks of life and all backgrounds.


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[Assistant] When a couple wants to conceive a child,


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[Assistant] At Krishna House we worked on establishing an atmosphere where spiritually minded people


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[Assistant] If we could do that, it would give a whole new meaning to the phrase, all glories to the assembled devotees.


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[Assistant] What we have done instead is create an environment that is attractive for spiritually minded people. And those people then come from all walks of life.


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[Assistant] Uh, factor is the spiritual enthusiasm of the devotees and the clarity of the process and the accessibility of it and the reduction of those cultural thresholds.


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[Assistant] These women are approaching me. They're sincere souls. What can I do?


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[Assistant] So in 1968, he directed that all the centers should have brahmacharini ashrams. And they did. All the centers? Yes. Yes, he wrote to Satsvarupa Maharaj.


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[Assistant] Lord Chaitanya took sannyas and said for the purpose of


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[Assistant] Therefore we have taken the process of engaging these women in Krishna consciousness and they have done wonderfully. So they are preaching Krishna consciousness, uh, and they are as good as their brothers.


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[Assistant] Enthusiastic Sinyasi GBC in 1976 had convinced the GBC to pass a resolution that all women in ISKCON should go to Australia.


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[Assistant] And, uh, Prabhupada is very pleased with that. Brought it down to our traveling party. But the temples, which were run by grihasthas usually,


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[Assistant] And in Mayapur in 1976, Prabhupada sided with these Grihastha temple presidents.


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[Assistant] Women were relegated to the backs of temples. The devotees were under the impression that this is Indian culture. This is really advanced Vaishnava culture.


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[Assistant] The newest Bhakti will come and offer flowers to Prabhupada before


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[Assistant] Now, on 26th Second Avenue, there was only a handful of young ladies who were coming, so there was no ashram for them.


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[Assistant] Realization I have, Prabhu, is that Prabhupada was very pragmatic. Of course no one can understand Prabhupada in full.


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[Assistant] But if we look at Prabhupada's life objectively, he was interested in what works. So what was working?


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[Assistant] There was a lot of enthusiasm, so many books were going out. But if, how would Prabhupada feel today if he were to come to these same temples?


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[Assistant] But he would also be asking, where are the other segments of the population?


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[Assistant] Insisted on a program being held where they would come more readily. And then he got them to come in.


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[Assistant] You've visited all the temples, so many temples in North America, and you've seen the congregations. How would he feel?


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[Assistant] To broadcast the cult of Krishna consciousness, one has to learn the possibility of renunciation in terms of country, time, and candidate.


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[Assistant] A candidate for Christian consciousness in the Western countries should be taught about the renunciation of material existence.


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[Assistant] The Acharya has to consider time, candidate, and country. He must avoid the principle of Niyamagraha. That is, he should not try to perform the impossible.


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[Assistant] The Acharya's duty is to accept the essence of devotional service. There may be a little change here and there as far as proper renunciation is concerned.


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[Assistant] I have found that young men and young women in the West are much less disturbed sexually if they're living in a co-educational environment. If there is a men-only environment, the men tend to become more uncomfortable. And it becomes like the forbidden fruit.


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[Assistant] Sharing sadhana, some forms of service, but very strict guidelines. Never being alone.


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[Assistant] No emails, no private emails back and forth or texts between boys and girls.


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[Assistant] So when there are co-educational student populations, the men and women being trained in this way, they're actually more peaceful.


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[Assistant] So that's been our practical experience. We also do not disparage the grihasta ashram.


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[Assistant] Fully covered. If, if they were passing a man, they had to look at the floor. They could not, they had to turn away.


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[Assistant] This, this is what we were just reading in that purport, trying to do the impossible.


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[Assistant] This idea that the more traditional Indian


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[Assistant] This is not a criticism of Indian culture. It is clearly a superior culture. It is clearly a more elevated culture. It's clearly based on more spiritual foundations.


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[Assistant] But it's not something that can be just imported and imposed on Westerners successfully. Some Westerners who get deeply into Christian consciousness may embrace these aspects of Indian culture more freely in their lives, but it's not equivalent with spiritual advancement. It's not, they're not synonymous.


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[Assistant] The Varnashram system is for convenience sake in the material world. It has nothing to do with spiritual life. Acceptance of Varnashram means a little easy progress to spiritual life. Otherwise it has no importance to us.


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[Assistant] For example, all my European and American disciples have no varnashram position, but spiritually, because they have followed the rules and regulations and also my instructions, their advancement in spiritual life is being appreciated by everyone.


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[Assistant] Always remember that Varnashram life is a good program for material life, and it helps one in spiritual life, but spiritual life is not dependent upon. So this is the point.


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[Assistant] So this notion that we progress in Krishna consciousness by getting back to the tradition, that is what has crippled our recruiting of Westerners. It's the wrong idea.


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[Assistant] The right idea is to treat people very equally, to give them an environment which is familiar to them.


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[Assistant] You asked about how could the agitation decrease by having coeducational environment. The answer is that that's what people are used to.


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[Assistant] They're just accustomed to it. If they're put in a single, uh, gender environment, then it's less comfortable. They're not accustomed to it. And therefore their mind becomes more disturbed.


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[Assistant] Again, this was something from the early days of ISKCON that was lost in the 70s.


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[Assistant] And they've got a little fixed up and they were qualified. Then they say, okay, now you can get married because you're a fixed up devotee.


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[Assistant] To be married at that time was a sign of spiritual advancement. But that was turned on its head by the mid-70s.


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[Assistant] Uh, spiritual vows. Even in one popular book on Brahmachari Ashram life that circulated widely in ISKCON, there's a passage which says,


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[Assistant] Everyone is smiling at the wedding, but the groom has nothing to smile about.


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[Assistant] And this is yet another thing that has crippled our recruiting of Westerners. The reality is that, that most devotees are going to be married. I would estimate 95%.


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[Assistant] So both ashrams have to be encouraged equally.


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[Assistant] Now what tends to happen when men are sequestered and only living with other men is that the grihasta ashram tends to get, not in all cases, like Chopati is very exemplary,


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[Assistant] Yeah, take up Ramachari life for one year, two years. Have a little bit more constraint about your association with the opposite sex, but be realistic and say,


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[Assistant] I know when I was a brahmachari, our whole spirite decor was, oh yeah, we're all, we're all brahmacharis and we're all going to take sannyas. Yeah. No, who'd want to get married?


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[Assistant] See, but this actually hurts our recruiting of Westerners. But we tell them you can...


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[Assistant] Just keep up your chanting, keep up your vows, and you can be Krishna conscious throughout your life.


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[Assistant] Then the western mind feels very relaxed. Okay, I don't have to make this heavy decision.


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[Assistant] By preaching in this way, everybody feels comfortable. And this is how the family atmosphere is created.


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[Assistant] I did, I just want to, to embellish this just a bit more. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] There's a sense of hypocrisy, and Westerners really don't like hypocrisy in religion. They're looking for it.


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[Assistant] So we have taken steps to eliminate any sense that one gender is superior to another spiritually.


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[Assistant] Don't discriminate. I mean, we don't have any issue with saying men and women may have different natures and different duties, but on the spiritual platform, we teach we're not this body.


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[Assistant] So, getting back to some of these cultural imports from India by immature devotees in the mid-70s. One of the things that used to be present in the temples was that there was no women's side or men's side front or back.


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[Assistant] Every temple you go to, you'll see these, the same practice, that when the, the Ghee lamp comes off the altar, what happens? Well, it goes to the men's side first. Right?


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[Assistant] Now think about the subtle message that sends to the Western mind.


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[Assistant] The Westerner sees, well here women are treated as second class citizens. Westerners don't like that.


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[Assistant] So at Krishna House, we just have a simple policy. Men or women may take the ghee lamp and then they take it to whomever is closest, men's side, women's side.


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[Assistant] These are very, they're very small things, but I hope you understand. These are the lengths to which we have gone to show women that they are welcome in ISKCON, that they are equals with the men in terms of their spiritual opportunity.


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[Assistant] Women lead care times. Women give classes as often as the men. And there's just no discrimination. This is what creates a family atmosphere. This is what brings the Westerners into the temples. And this is what makes them enthusiastic devotees and preachers of Krishna consciousness.


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[Assistant] No, no. Would they do this in India? I'm sorry if I'm...


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[Assistant] So we try to prepare them to come into a society where some of these gender discriminations are more, uh, are more internalized or more embedded. Okay.


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[Assistant] Yes, if I have implied that the gender distancing in India is based on the bodily conception, then I have not communicated my point clearly.


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[Assistant] I'm talking about in terms of what the Western mind, how the Western mind perceives it.


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[Assistant] We have four regulative principles and 16 rounds.


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[Assistant] How the gender distancing is there, all these social things. I think we can agree these are details of devotional service. They're not principles.


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[Assistant] Well that's a misunderstanding because our point is to apply spiritual principles equally between the genders.


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[Assistant] In a way that is, that works for this population.


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[Assistant] So that may appear, from the Indian point of view, to be a mundane equalization of men's and women's rights.


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[Assistant] People have given up, isn't it? I mean, I have to say, so many people have just more or less given up. We're not going to be able to reach Westerners anymore.


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[Assistant] We're not going to be able to do it. It's impossible, people feel.


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[Assistant] I just don't know how to reach the Westerners. It's a lost art. It was, it was like a phase in the history.


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[Assistant] So, what I said is that to the westerner, it is a bodily


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[Assistant] Uh, concept of life if women are socially distanced from men.


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[Assistant] They say, well this is just, you say you're not this body, but then this way for men, this way for women. Isn't that based on the body? Prabhu, I'm not arguing whether that's right or wrong. I'm simply saying this is how the Westerner perceives it.


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[Assistant] Okay, and you may, you may try and try to convince them otherwise, and over time they may gradually become convinced.


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[Assistant] Just as the equanimity is taught between the Brahmachari and Brihasta ashram, so also the equanimity is taught between the various vocations, uh, that one might pursue.


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[Assistant] Beyond that, what you choose to do with your life is entirely


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[Assistant] And I look around at the churches in America and I see there's one shepherd and 99 sheep. You know?


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[Assistant] Not a reality. Most people are not inclined to that particular vocation. So this is again how we teach our students.


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[Assistant] Yes, whatever your career is, whatever your pursuit is, do it in Krishna consciousness. The Mormon Church has been one of the most successful in America over the last 50 to 100 years.


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[Assistant] And they have a system whereby young people will give two years of mission work to the church.


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[Assistant] So this is more the line and the model that we teach at Krishna House. If you like Krishna consciousness, spend a year or two as a single celibate preacher.


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[Assistant] Uh, men or women, uh, for the men this usually means going out on traveling book distribution. Because our, the city in which we are based is rather small.


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[Assistant] So the point is, but we teach that most of you are not going to make a career out of this.