Quote by Maya Lin
The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost. – Maya Lin

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I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up. – Maya Lin

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teacher
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You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition. – Maya Lin

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Learning
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I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. – Maya Lin

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War
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In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD. – Tony Blair

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War

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. – Aldous Huxley

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War

From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that were engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there. – Dick Cheney

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War

War is nothing less than a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue. It is a system out of which almost all the virtues are excluded, and in which nearly all the vices are included. – Robert Hall

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War

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Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem. – John Barton

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respect

After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering grannys words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead. – Jimmy Carr

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Wisdom

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat. – Ogden Nash

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pet

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water. – Gwendolyn Brooks

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Love