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We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.
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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New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
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Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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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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I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!
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The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.
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