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The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
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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To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.
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From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.
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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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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.
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Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.
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