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 Solidity is a statically-typed curly-braces programming language designed for developing smart contracts
 that run on the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Smart contracts are programs that are executed inside a peer-to-peer
-network where nobody has special authority over the execution, and thus they allow to implement tokens of value,
+network where nobody has special authority over the execution, and thus they allow anyone to implement tokens of value,
 ownership, voting, and other kinds of logic.
 
 When deploying contracts, you should use the latest released version of