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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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The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think its magical. – Maya Lin

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architecture
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Maya Lin
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Art is very tricky because its what you do for yourself. Its much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture. – Maya Lin

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architecture
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A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he wont get a bikini wax. – Rita Rudner

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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem. – Washington Irving

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War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted. – Margaret Sanger

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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. – Victor Hugo

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