Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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And that's the way it is.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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You would not believe that Paula Patton and I have the same trainer.
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There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.
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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.
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The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.
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The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.
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Your letter firmed me up a lot. It certainly is a comfort to know that my work is respected by someone whom I respect and am as fond as you. It confirms my beliefe that life is notall nonsense and cruelty-the inversion of Victorian complacency-but has hard spots of sense and love bobbing about in it here and there.
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Come and look for Peterkin, poor little Peterkin. No one would believe us if we told them what we know, Or they wouldn't grieve for Peterkin, merry little Peterkin...
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For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.
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I had had a father whose shoes I could never fill, against whom I would never measure up; yet, I felt no pressure do so.
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It's not hard to create a song, but to write a song that's really going affect somebody? That takes a hell of a lot of time.
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Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.
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I'm very outgoing and social.
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I'm so excited to be appearing in 'Peter Pan.' It really is an extraordinary production, the like of which Wembley has never seen before. It's a big, bold arena extravaganza and festive treat with something for everyone.
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Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.
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It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent; because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses. Yet the thing is not altogether desperate; for we have some arguments to guide us, partly from the apparent motions, which are the differences of the true motions; partly from the forces, which are the causes and effects of the true motions.
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Where will it all end? In the destruction of all other command for the benefit of one alone - that of the state. In each man's absolute freedom from every family and social authority, a freedom the price of which is complete submission to the state. In the complete equality as between themselves of all citizens, paid for by their equal abasement before the power of their absolute master - the state. In the disappearance of every constraint which does not emanate from the state, and in the denial of every pre-eminence which is not approved by the state. In a word, it ends in the atomization of society, and in the rupture of every private tie linking man and man, whose only bond is now their common bondage to the state. The extremes of individualism and socialism meet: that was their predestined course.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
