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Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us. ↗

— Arthur C. Nielsen

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If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#asked #certainly #concept #different #different things

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

— Oscar Niemeyer

#art #cause #emotion #i #newness

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#exactness #fact #great #lies #men

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#awfulness #consciousness #everywhere #existence #him

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#becomes #conscience #evil #his #ideal

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#also #condemn #everything #pardon #something

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#everyone #human #madness #praise #virtue

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#does #forgotten #gnawing #grateful #great

Idleness is the parent of psychology. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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