• You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown.

  Thomas Mann
  German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) 1875-1955
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1. classification
2. simplification
3. subject-the
4. unknown
5. actual
6. steps

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You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown. by : Thomas Mann

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