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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's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like. ↗

— Maya Lin

#hindsight #indeed #like #only #realize

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field. ↗

— 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 it's magical. ↗

— 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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You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it. ↗

— Maya Lin

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You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition. ↗

— Maya Lin

#because #competition #explore #exploring #fun

I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

#brothers #cause #chicago #during #farm

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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