#wit

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I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.


Claude Nicollier


#civil #dad #engineer #got #help

The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.


Harold Nicolson


#attain #broadcasting #capacity #could #gift

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


#artistry #conceived #conductor #create #effect

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


Friedrich Nietzsche


#complaint #contains #every #impossible #making

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#aesthetic #beautiful #defined #degenerate #domain

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#although #convinced #even #guilt #judges

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


Friedrich Nietzsche


#becomes #conscience #evil #his #ideal

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#epitaph #wit

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.


Earl Nightingale


#circumstances #lives #our #our lives #rule

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.


Yannick Noah


#cameroon #i #i always #left #lived