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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Education Perfection Student
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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Ideas Imagination
Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.
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Art Human Mindset Nature Simplicity
Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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Greatness Heart Love Virtue
Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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Limitation Praise
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Beautiful Ignorance Life Live Myself Perspective Philosophy Yourself
Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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Grow Up Old Yourself Youth
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
The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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Greatness Human Limitation
An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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Business Tool
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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Creation Friendship Ourselves Philosophy
Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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Age Lose Perspective Quality Youth
The Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!
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Art Beautiful Expression Human Intellectual Life Live Strength Technology
A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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Human Inspirational Spirit
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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Government Result
I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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Greatness Myself Nature Religious
I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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Danger Fool Hands Myself Start Weapon
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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Failure Nature Yourself
Nature is my manifestation of God.
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God Nature Religious Spiritual
Early in my career, I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.
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Career Choice Honesty Myself Regret
The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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Friendship Man Tree
Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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Material Nature
Imitate nothing except principle.
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One Liner Principle
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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Lose World
The room within is the great fact about the building.
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Fact Greatness Room
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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Life Man Philosophy
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Eyes Technology

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