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Fats was starting to think that if you flipped every bit of received wisdom on its head you would have the truth. He wanted to journey through dark labyrinths and wrestle with the strangeness that lurked within; he wanted to crack open piety and expose hypocrisy; he wanted to break taboos and squeeze wisdom from their bloody hearts; he wanted to achieve a state of amoral grace, and be baptised backwards into ignorance and simplicity. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#wisdom #freedom

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#belief #believe #happen #happens #makes

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#atrophy #finger #his #keeps #limbs

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#ever #hope #lies #moving #present

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#buried #custard #dead #like #nail

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#direct #individual #internationalism #life #only

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#man #masterpiece #much #needed #none

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#everything #land #loose #los #los angeles

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#beautiful #better #chicago #city #eventually

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#great #greed #money #monument #new