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The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on

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Frank Lloyd Wright
Age: 92 †
Born: 1867
Born: June 8
Died: 1959
Died: September 9
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Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
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Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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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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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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Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.
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New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
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