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" My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar. "
Maya Lin
Father
China
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" I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that. "
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" The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost. "
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" A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time. "
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