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The first clue was very helpful to me, since it basically told me, what kyro said in his second clue: That the content of the sentences had nothing to do with the answer. Since I pretty much had been working under the opposite assumption from start, then that helped a lot (so if you'd already realized this, then I can see how it wouldn't help at all).

I might also have been helped in figuring out so quickly after, that some part of the theme of this puzzle had been on my mind quite recently.