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" Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time. "
Louis Sullivan
Words
Time
Possession
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" Form follows function. "
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" The building's identity resided in the ornament. "
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" It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building. "
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" If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected. "
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" What the people are within, the buildings express without. "
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Within
Without
" Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant. "
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Eye
Look
" Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome. "
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Freedom
Welcome
Responsibility
" The problem of the tall office building is one of the most stupendous, one of the most magnificent opportunities that the Lord of Nature in His beneficence has ever offered to the proud spirit of man. "
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Tall
Proud
" Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man. "
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World
Clean
Back
" It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the present day and hour. "
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Day
Dream
Past
" In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a greater power and more real than vengeance. The second proclaimed the earth to be a sphere revolving in its course around the sun. These affirmations were made in the face of all evidence sacred to the contrary. "
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Love
Sun
Power