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The author studies the existence of solutions for the second-order Hamiltonian system: \[ \ddot q(t)= -V'(q(t),t),\quad q(T)-q(0)=\dot q(T)-\dot q(0)=0\quad (V'=\partial V/\partial q), \] where \(T>0\), \(V(q,t)\) is a real valued function of class \(C^2[\mathbb R^N\times\mathbb R]\), \(T\)-periodic in the \(t\)-variable. The main assumption is that \(V'(q,t)\) is asymptotically linear at infinity, as it is specified in details in the paper. The objective is to give sufficient conditions for the existence of \(T\)-periodic and \(k T\)-periodic nontrivial solutions, where \(k=N/2+1\) or \(k=(N+1)/2\) if \(N\) is even or odd, respectively. The existence is proved utilizing suitable properties of the asymptotically quadratic functionals.