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" Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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" A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. "

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" Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. "

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" The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. "

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" Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. "

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. "

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" Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. "

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" Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves. "

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" To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor. "

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" Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. "

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" The truth is more important than the facts. "

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" New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. "

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" Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground. "

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" Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. "

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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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" The space within becomes the reality of the building. "

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