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Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

Bred Buildings Character Environment
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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Any Art Measure Qualities
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Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

Great Man Masterpiece Much
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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Age Architect Day Every
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The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

Ahead Architect Call He
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The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Becomes Building Reality Space
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A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

America Call Democracy Else
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I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

Believe Capitalist I Believe Only
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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Blessed Books Mind Chloroform
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

Bureaucrats Buried Dead Like
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Beautiful Chicago City Eventually
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'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

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

Analysis Become Enable Get
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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

Afterwards Age Before Drinks
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TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Chewing Chewing Gum Eyes Gum
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God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Been Body Call Ever
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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Advise Architect As Far As Build
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A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

Architect Brain Cultivated Enriched
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Architectural Else Fine Human
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The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

Architect Beauty Carefully Comfort
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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Circumstances Matter Quality Youth
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A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

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

Divides Ever Hope Lies
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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Any Big Big City City
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

When First Discover Love
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I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.

Grew Up Women House
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I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

Was Left Small Maine
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

Fame Delicate Dangerous Creature
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In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

In LosAngeles Gained Lost
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.

Sometimes Television Storyline Told
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Eventually feels a lot different than actually.

Eventually Feels Lot Differently
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The key to a successful marriage is accepting that you're not going to change the other person. And the words

Key Successful Marriage Accepting
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Fame is fleeting. Sometimes people like you, sometimes they don’t. Not all people are going to like you.

Fame Fleeting Sometimes People
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With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work.

Competition There Ego Hubris
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I think fame is one of those things where you have a window of opportunity and you have a certain amount of trust from the fans and without that you don't have a career.

Fame Think One Things
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A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.

Wedding Like Funeral But
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Didn't you take economics? You could have had me for $49.95.

Didn't You Take Economics
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

Am Cannot I Am I Can
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The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Done Getting Knowing Leave
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

Actual Determines Outward People
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When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

Cowardly End Get He
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
Chief End Happiness Holiness
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Best Dealing Insane Method
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Becomes Different Everything Little
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Always Bad Believe Transform
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Character Christ Disposition Jesus
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But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

Exception Questions Same Spring
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For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

Associated Become Beloved Childhood
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Character Confidence Deliberate Faith
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When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Childhood Discoveries Eternal Glow
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