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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 occasion to change.

— Frank Lloyd Wright The World's Best Thoughts on Life & Living (1981)

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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.

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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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