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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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Imitate nothing except principle.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
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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 go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
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Is there anything more anti-American than McCarthyism?
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San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.
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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
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Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
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True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented
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Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.
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I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him.
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