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

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I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. – Maya Lin

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architecture
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Its funny, as you live through something youre not aware of it. – Maya Lin

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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. – Napoleon

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In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war. – Arthur Henderson

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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? – Benjamin Franklin

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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not. – Jose Padilha

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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. – Euripedes

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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. – John Dryden

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