The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

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Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his...

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I grow more intense as I age.

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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

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Space is the breath of art.

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

—Bertrand Russell

Man is what he believes.

—Anton Chekhov

What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us-what convictions, what courage, what faith-win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principal can.

—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.

—Gretchen Rubin in The Happiness Project

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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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