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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

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Goethe suggests that every smart idea has already been discovered in the past. The important task now is to revisit and understand these ideas rather than trying to create entirely new ones.

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