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When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.
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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