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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.

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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