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I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a mon

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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Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I dont want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist. – Maya Lin

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architecture
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Maya Lin
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The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasnt about money. It was about teaching, or learning. – Maya Lin

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Learning
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War
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So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation. – Colin Quinn

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War

War. The dark time of valour, loss and hope where a man is controlled by his gun; where a gun is controlled by his hatred. Completely uncontrollable. – DanielHa

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War

Were fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. Its a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world. – Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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War

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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War

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I dont keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself. – Natalia Makarova

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Knowledge

Its the continuation of everyones childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant theyre gone from this world. Its terrible. – Lucien Bouchard

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Intelligence

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Reform, Correction

As we become purer channels for Gods light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be. – Marianne Williamson

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God