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

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

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

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

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" Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall. "

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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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