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Oblique Strategies

Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance

#ObliqueStrategies

Oblique Strategies

Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance

#ObliqueStrategies

Paulus

@oblique_strategies This one is an interesting one... it's almost too important to call oblique, IMO.

Oblique Strategies

Faced with a choice, do both (given by Dieter Rot)

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Ian K Tindale

@oblique_strategies I’ve used more cliches than you’ve had hot dinners

bs2

@oblique_strategies
Cliches overlap with proverbs and:

"... proverbs go in pairs which say opposite things."

--- Bertrand Russel
russell-j.com/PROVERB.HTM

/HT @acousticmirror

I think of a former oblique strategy a lot "Do nothing for as long as possible." Thanks! It might become part of a coherent philosophy along with Niksen: The Dutcht Art of Doing Nothing, the Illiumination stage in Graham Wallas's Art of though and some Lao Tse "Inactivity" mentions...

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