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It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. Wer

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. Were reaching a time that well acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level. – Maya Lin

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Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think. – Maya Lin

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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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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. – Otto von Bismarck

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That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views. – Paul Wolfowitz

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I want to start my own airplane business. Im going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem – you know, where the old paratroopers used to go – and charge them about 20 quid a time. – Gary Numan

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[T]he cherub, alas, proved to be pasted on tough gingerbread which was too hard for many to bite into. – Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift, 1963, translated from Russian by Michael Scammell

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