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The petty bias of personal taste can no longer hide either excrescence or spiritual poverty in the name of style.

— Frank Lloyd Wright A Testament (1957)

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It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

Lecture to the Chicago Women's Aid (1918)

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Architecture is the triumph of Human Imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth.

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

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Get the habit of analysis- analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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