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(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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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 give yourself credit for having more than personality

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Always the first steps

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Animal noises

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Are there sections? Consider transitions

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Ask a computer program to repeat your last action

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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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Back up a few steps What else could you have done?

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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 more often

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Breathe more deeply

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Build bridges

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Burn bridges

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Call your mother and ask her what to do

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Cascades

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Change ambiguities to specifics

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Change specifics to ambiguities

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Change instrument roles

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Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency

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Children's voices speaking

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Children's voices 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 promising sources

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Consult other unpromising sources

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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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Cut a virtual 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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Describe the landscape in which this belongs

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Destroy nothing

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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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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 one thing more than another

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Emphasize differences

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Emphasize repetitions

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Emphasize the flaws

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Faced with a choice, do both!

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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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First work alone, then work in unusual pairs

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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, move back to a more comfortable place

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How would someone else do it?

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How would you explain this to your parents?

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How would you have done it?

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Humanize something that is 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 series of disconnected events

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In total darkness

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In a very large room, very quietly

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Infinitesimal gradations

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Instead of changing the thing, change the world around it

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Credibility of intentions

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Nobility of intentions

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Humility of intentions

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Is it finished?

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Is something missing?

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Is the style right?

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Is the tuning appropriate?

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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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List the qualities it has List those you'd like

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Listen in total darkness

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Listen 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

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Lost in useless territory

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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 excquisite 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 it more banal

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Make what's perfect more human

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Mechanize something idiosyncratic

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Move towards the impossible

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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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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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Overtly resist change

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Pae White's non-blank graphic metacard

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Pay attention to distractions

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Picture of a man spotlighted

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Put in earplugs

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Question the heroic approach

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Rearrange

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Remember those 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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Remove the middle, extend the edges

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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

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Shut the door and listen from outside

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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 in words as simply as possible

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Steal a solution

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Take a break

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Take away as much mystery as possible What is left?

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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

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The inconsistency principle

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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

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Think 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

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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 color

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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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Fire

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Earth

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Wind

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Heart

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What are the sections sections of?

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What context would look right?

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What do you do?

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Now, what do you do best?

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What else is this like?

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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 most recently impressed you?

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What can you learn from it?

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How is it similar?

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What could you take from it?

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What to increase? What to reduce? What to maintain?

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What were the branch points in the evolution of this entity?

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What were you really thinking about just now? Incorporate

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What would make this really successful?

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What would your closest friend do?

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What wouldn't you do? Do that

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When is it for?

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Who is it for?

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Where is the edge?

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Which parts can be grouped?

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Who would make this really successful?

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Work at a different speed

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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