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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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" Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. "

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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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" I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture. "

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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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" A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward. "

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

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