#out

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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I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#i #kind #like #outrageous

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me. ↗

— Martin Niemoller

#left #me #out #speak #then

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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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#complaint #contains #every #impossible #making

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist. ↗

— Martin Niemoller

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In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. ↗

— Elinor Wylie

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It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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