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A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.
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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Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
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Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
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Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part.
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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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I voted for Stevenson as opposed to Eisenhower because I thought he would make a good president, but against my conscience because I thought that he was too good for the job.
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The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
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Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
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If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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