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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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It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public. ↗

— Maya Lin

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It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level. ↗

— Maya Lin

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My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. ↗

— 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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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost. ↗

— Maya Lin

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When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family. ↗

— Maya Lin

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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