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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

~Frank Lloyd Wright

Topics: Good Harvard Perfectly Prune Students Takes Them Turns

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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

~Frank Lloyd Wright

Topics: Architectural Else Fine Human Human Values Valuable Values

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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.

~Frank Lloyd Wright

Topics: Bureaucrats Buried Dead Like Nail Them Wall You

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

~Frank Lloyd Wright

Topics: Buildings Just Out Shake Sleeves Why

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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

~Frank Lloyd Wright

Topics: Always Architecture Civilization Culture Demands Downfall Imminent Lack Life Means Meant Men Noble Therefore Uses

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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.

~Frank Lloyd Wright

Topics: Advise Architect As Far As Build Buildings Bury Client Far First Go His Home Mistakes Only Physician Plant Possible Should Vines

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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

Topics: City Great Greed Money Monument New New York New York City Power Race Rent York

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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

Topics: Always Direct Individual Internationalism Life Only Responsibility Rides Strength Through Victory

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

~Frank Lloyd Wright

Topics: Great Man Masterpiece Much Needed None Now Quality Respect Reverence True

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

~Frank Lloyd Wright

Topics: Circumstances Matter Quality Youth

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: June 8th, 1867

Died: April 9th, 1959

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