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"The human spirit sublimates
the impulses it thwarts:
a healthy sex life mitigates
the lust for other sports."
Piet Hein (b. 1905), Dutch inventor, poet. "Hint and Suggestion," Grooks (1966).
Admonitory grook addressed to youth. |
"They're busy making bigger roads,
and better roads and more,
so that people can discover
even faster than before
that everything is everywhere alike."
Piet Hein (b. 1905), Dutch inventor, poet. Road Sense, in Grooks (1966). |
"The road to wisdom?—Well, it's plain
and simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less."
Piet Hein (b. 1905), Dutch inventor, poet. "The Road to Wisdom," Grooks (1966). |
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Piet Hein
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