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Imitate nothing except principle.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
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Himself Man Nature Philosophy Worth
They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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Country Fall
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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Advice Mistake Plant
The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
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Gratitude Man Ourselves Philosophy
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Education Perfection Student
I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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Design Myself People
An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
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Beginning Feeling Idea Ideas Nature Togetherness
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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Ideas Imagination
I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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Choice Honesty Myself
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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Change Choice Honesty Life Myself
Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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Art Quality Simplicity True Value
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
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Happiness Home Live Nature Togetherness
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
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Inspirational Myself Price See Success Yourself
I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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Myself Nature
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Life Luxury Necessary Willing
The primitive ideals of centralization are now largely self-defeating. Human crucifixion by vertically on the now static checkerboard of the old city is pattern already in agony; yet for lack of any organic planning it is going on and on-not living, but rather hanging by its eyebrows from its nervous system.
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Defeat Human Ideal Live Planning

Imitate nothing except principle.

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