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" Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. "
Frank Lloyd Wright
Children
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Too
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" Freedom is from within. "
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" No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built. "
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" Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. "
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" The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. "
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" God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. "
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" Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain. "
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" 'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles. "
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" I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it. "
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" If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. "
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" Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. "
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" Mechanization best serves mediocrity. "
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" An idea is salvation by imagination. "
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" The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty. "
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" Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual. "
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" The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. "
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" Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. "
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" Less is only more where more is no good. "
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" Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves. "
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