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Mathematics in co-ordinated Form is architecture.

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Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.

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If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!

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Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece.

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The only thing wrong with architecture [is] the architects.

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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.

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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

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The-Shadow-of-the-Wall–Primitive Instincts Still Alive
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You can study mathematics all your life and never do a bit of thinking.

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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

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The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

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

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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.

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I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

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Give me the luxuries in life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

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The modern city is a place for banking and prostitution and very little else.

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Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

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Here I am, Philip, am I indoors or am I out? Do I take my hat off or keep it on?

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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

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New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

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If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything will fall.

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If you turned the country on its side, everything loose would fall into Southern California.

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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

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