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Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Age: 92 †
Born: 1867
Born: June 8
Died: 1959
Died: September 9
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Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.
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Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
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Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
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As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital S - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means
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