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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."
"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."
"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."
"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger."
"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."
Explore more quotes by Maya Lin
"The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning."
"My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar."
"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."
"I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination."
"To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom."
"Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice."
"How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now."
"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."
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