"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."
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"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts."
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"A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working."
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"The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist."
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"New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him."
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"The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century."
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"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."
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"Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now."
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"Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun."
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"One war only breeds another."
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"Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances."
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"Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic."
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"Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it."
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"I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city."
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"The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind."
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"Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly."
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"The room within is the great fact about the building."
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"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."
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"By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of which hour forefathers dreamed is betrayed for votes in the name of democracy."
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"I find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if we don't take care of ourselves pretty carefully."
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