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From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Age: 92 †
Born: 1867
Born: June 8
Died: 1959
Died: September 9
Architect
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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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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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Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.
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