"The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost."
-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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"I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up."
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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."
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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."
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"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me."
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"In politics stupidity is not a handicap."
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
-Ronald Reagan
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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
-Aesop
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"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."
-Winston Churchill
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"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
-Gore Vidal
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"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
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