![... [L]ess than at any time does a simple reproduction of reality tell us anything about reality. A photograph of the Krupp works or GEC yields almost nothing about those institutions. Reality proper has slipped into the functional. The reification of human relationships, the factory, let's say, no longer reveals these relationships. Therefore something has to be constructed, something artificial, something set up.](/assets/img/quote-photos/less-than-at-any-time-does-a-simple-reproduction-of-reality-tell-us-anythin.jpg)
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simple blind-belief curiosity
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reality shadow substance
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reality way faces
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yield results plans
A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed. Otto von Bismarck
yield discipline joy
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yield office done
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yield vegetarianism vegan-food
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