"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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"Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture."
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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."
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