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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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My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground. – Maya Lin

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When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you dont pry into other peoples business. – Maya Lin

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I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. – Maya Lin

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But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time. – Jane Goodall

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I dont know why you use a fancy French word like detente when theres a good English phrase for it – cold war. – Golda Meir

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You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time. – Albert Einstein

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The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israels existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state. – John Podhoretz

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I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable. – Tupac Shakur

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Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society. – Jenny McCarthy

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