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My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach. Kojo Annan
Character Man Integrity Father United Nations Impeccable Beyond His Years Nations Tirelessly Reproach Worked Who Many United
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep. Le Corbusier
Light Space Men Design Those Just Just As Much Order Bread Place Much Things Need Sleep
To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be. Leonhard Euler
Mathematics Mysteries Those Hidden Small Concept Quantity Answer Infinitely Ask Who Many Hence Believed Zero Actually
Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk. Leonhard Euler
People Country Madam Come Talk Hanged Where
I cannot afford to waste my time making money. Louis Agassiz
Time Money My Time Making Making Money Afford Cannot Waste
The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature. Louis Agassiz
Nature You Mind Trifle Never Highest Study Intercourse Should
Study nature, not books. Louis Agassiz
Nature Books Study Study Nature
I struggled quite a long time with my backhand, which was one of my best weapons before my surgery. Marco Chiudinelli
Time Best Long Long Time Before Weapons Struggled Surgery Quite Quite A Long Time Which
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic. Marco Tempest
Truth Art You Yourself Lie Emotions Magic Give Over Becomes Real Deception Creates
Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself. Marco Tempest
Work Myself Result Group Others Software Introverted Composers Magicians Diverse Something More Tend Could Always Very Than Done Interesting Designers Programmers
I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history. Marco Tempest
Life Time History My Life All My Life Magic Like Tap Did
My products and magic are free, but on the commercial side of what I do, the big tech companies are impressed with somebody like me who can emotionalize a piece of technology. Marco Tempest
Me Technology Free Somebody Big Side Magic Like Piece Impressed Commercial Products Who Companies Tech Tech Companies
Magic is, in its core, introverted and closed; it's the most closed community ever, and I want to change all that and make it more open. If we want things to change, we have to be more open-minded. Marco Tempest
Change Closed Community Introverted Magic More Open Open-Minded Most Make Want Ever Things Core
To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses. Mario Botta
Me Architecture Building Some Faced Small Had Idea Studying Houses Subject Going Fascinating University
Artificial light is used because you can control it better. Technically, it is more homogeneous, more delicate, and less damaging to artwork. But I think it's interesting when the visitor can see variations in the light, when it is not only technical or suitable. Mario Botta
You Better Light Technically Control Think Suitable Visitor See Variations More Only Delicate Because Artificial Artwork Interesting Used Less Technical Damaging
The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum. Mario Botta
Build City Architect Exhibit His Artist Works Museum
In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Switzerland. Mario Botta
Architecture State Took Circumstances Favourable Some Propose Advantage Academy Foundation Switzerland University
There's no point in us designing synthetic laboratories that could just as well be in Dusseldorf or Helsinki. San Francisco has its light, which must be used. Mario Botta
Light Francisco Synthetic Must No Point Point Could Well Just San San Francisco Which Us Used Designing
I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear. Mario Botta
Design Everything Would Seem Clear Wanted Which Museum
There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because it shelters the most powerful themes of humanity: birth, marriage, death. Mario Botta
Death Great Me Marriage Humanity Church Design Birth Mystery Powerful Most Most Powerful Because Shelters Privilege Confronted Themes
We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction. Max Bill
Art Natural Words Other Resources Rules Those Borrowing Abstraction Call Without Concrete Came Being In Other Words Transforming Natural Phenomena Inherent Works Phenomena External Basis
Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking. Max Bill
Thought Unity Thinking Way Approximate Would Comprehensive More Idea Thus Mathematical Train Closer Basic
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us. Max Frisch
Time Change Does Just Unfolds Us
I have no words for my reality. Max Frisch
Reality Words No Words
If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one. Max Frisch
Guilty Generally Anyone Conscience
Nothing is harder than to accept oneself. Max Frisch
Nothing Oneself Accept Than Harder
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