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We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me.

Frank Gehry

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Frank Gehry
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 28
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