oblique

(Organic) machinery
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A line has two sides
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A very small object -Its centre
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Abandon desire
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Abandon normal instructions
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Abandon normal instruments
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Accept advice
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Accretion
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Adding on
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Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture)
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Always first steps
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Always give yourself credit for having more than personality (given by Arto Lindsay)
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Always the first steps
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Are there sections? Consider transitions
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Ask people to work against their better judgement
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Ask your body
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Assemble some of the elements in a group and treat the group
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Assemble some of the instruments in a group and treat the group
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Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle
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Be dirty
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Be extravagant
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Be less critical
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Be less critical more often
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Breathe more deeply
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Bridges -build -burn
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Cascades
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Change ambiguities to specifics
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Change instrument roles
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Change nothing and continue consistently
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Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency
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Change specifics to ambiguities
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Children -speaking -singing
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Children's voices -speaking -singing
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Cluster analysis
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Consider different fading systems
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Consider transitions
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Consult other sources -promising -unpromising
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Convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element
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Courage!
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Cut a vital connection
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Decorate, decorate
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Define an area as 'safe' and use it as an anchor
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Destroy -nothing -the most important thing
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Destroy nothing; Destroy the most important thing
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Discard an axiom
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Disciplined self-indulgence
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Disconnect from desire
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Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them
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Discover your formulas and abandon them
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Display your talent
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Distort time
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Distorting time
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Do nothing for as long as possible
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Do something boring
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Do something sudden, destructive and unpredictable
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Do the last thing first
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Do the washing up
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Do the words need changing?
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Do we need holes?
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Don't avoid what is easy
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Don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do
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Don't be frightened of cliches
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Don't be frightened to display your talents
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Don't break the silence
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Don't stress *on* thing more than another (sic)
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Don't stress one thing more than another
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Emphasise differences
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Emphasise repetitions
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Emphasise the flaws
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Emphasize differences
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Emphasize the flaws
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Faced with a choice, do both (from Dieter Rot)
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Faced with a choice, do both (given by Dieter Rot)
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Feed the recording back out of the medium
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Feedback recordings into an acoustic situation
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Fill every beat with something
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Find a safe part and use it as an anchor
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From nothing to more than nothing
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Get your neck massaged
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Ghost echoes
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Give the game away
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Give way to your worst impulse
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Go outside. Shut the door.
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Go slowly all the way round the outside
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Go to an extreme, come part way back
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Go to an extreme, move back to a more comfortable place
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Honor thy error as a hidden intention
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How would someone else do it?
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How would you have done it?
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Humanise something free of error
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Idiot glee (?)
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Imagine the music as a moving chain or caterpillar
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Imagine the music as a set of disconnected events
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Imagine the piece as a set of disconnected events
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In total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly
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Infinitesimal gradations
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Intentions -credibility of -nobility of -humility of
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Intentions -nobility of -humility of -credibility of
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Into the impossible
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Is it finished?
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Is something missing?
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Is the intonation correct?
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Is the style right?
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Is the tuning appropriate?
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Is the tuning intonation correct?
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Is there something missing?
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It is quite possible (after all)
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It is simply a matter or work
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Just carry on
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Left channel, right channel, centre channel
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Listen in total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly
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Listen to the quiet voice
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Look at a very small object, look at its centre
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Look at the order in which you do things
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them
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Lost in useless territory
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Lowest common denominator
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Lowest common denominator check -single beat -single note -single riff
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Magnify the most difficult details
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Make a blank valuable by putting it in an exquisite frame
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Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do and do the last thing on the list
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Make it more sensual
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Make what's perfect more human
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Mechanicalise something idiosyncratic
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Move towards the unimportant
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Mute and continue
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Not building a wall but making a brick
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Not building a wall; making a brick
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Once the search has begun, something will be found
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Once the search is in progress, something will be found
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Only a part, not the whole
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Only one element of each kind
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Openly resist change
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Overtly resist change
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Pae White's non-blank graphic metacard
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Put in earplugs
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Question the heroic
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Question the heroic approach
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Remember .those quiet evenings
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Remember quiet evenings
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Remove a restriction
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Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics
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Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities
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Repetition is a form of change
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Retrace your steps
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Revaluation (a warm feeling)
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Reverse
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Short circuit (example; a man eating peas with the idea that they will improve his virility shovels them straight into his lap)
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Shut the door and listen from outside
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Simple Subtraction
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Simple subtraction
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Simply a matter of work
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Slow preparation, fast execution
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Spectrum analysis
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State the problem as clearly as possible
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State the problem in words as clearly as possible
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State the problem in words as simply as possible
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Take a break
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Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance
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Take away the important parts
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Tape your mouth (given by Ritva Saarikko)
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The inconsistency principle
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The most easily forgotten thing is the most important
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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten
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The tape is now the music
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Think - inside the work -outside the work
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Think of the radio
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Tidy up
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Towards the insignificant
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Trust in the you of now
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Try faking it (from Stewart Brand)
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Turn it upside down
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Twist the spine
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Use 'unqualified' people
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Use an old idea
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Use an unacceptable colour
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Use cliches
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Use fewer notes
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Use filters
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Use something nearby as a model
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Use your own ideas
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Voice your suspicions
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Water
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What are the sections sections of? Imagine a caterpillar moving
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What are you really thinking about just now?
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What are you really thinking about just now? Incorporate
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What context would look right?
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What is the reality of the situation?
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What is the simplest solution?
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What mistakes did you make last time?
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What to increase? What to reduce? What to maintain?
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What were you really thinking about just now?
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What would your closest friend do?
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What wouldn't you do?
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When is it for?
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Where is the edge?
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Which parts can be grouped?
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Work at a different speed
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Would anybody want it?
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Would anyone want it?
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You are an engineer
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You can only make one dot at a time
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You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas
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Your mistake was a hidden intention
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