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I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry. ↗

— Leon Theremin

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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#architecture #disseminate #ideology #political #political ideology

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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