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Imitate nothing except principle.
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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Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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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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We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.
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