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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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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I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.
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