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If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!
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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Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.
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Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.
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So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.
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Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.
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I find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if we don't take care of ourselves pretty carefully.
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