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- Frank Lloyd Wright: American architect
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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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All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.
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Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change.
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I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site
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'Pain' is more indicative of what I like to do. I'm lyric-conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.
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A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
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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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A society in which all men and women would become people of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
Source: The Sociological Imagination (1959) -
All of a sudden, it became a bit daunting. I'll be out shopping, and all it takes is for one person to recognise me and it can get scary.
Source: How Bonnie charmed Harry, Charlotte Methven, Daily Mail, 12th December 2009 -
All of my babies know that I preach all day... I ain't trying to hide no light under no bushel. Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come because they know I love them all, and I ain't judging nobody.
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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
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An expensive arms race, under cover of the military metaphysic, and in a paranoid atmosphere of fright, is an economically attractive business. To many utopian capitalists, it has become the Business Way of American Life.
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Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.
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Black holes are where God divided by zero.
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