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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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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.

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.

I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.

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Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

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There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

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An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.

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Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)

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