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Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?

Ai Weiwei

They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
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Defend Difficulty Dramatic Handle Idea Liberal Men Women Shame Show
How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
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Being Feel Human Modern Powerful Society Technology Understanding
We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet.
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Cleaned Highly Hole Literally Lived Poet Respected Toilet Underground Yera
Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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Barely Casulaities Country Deal People Political Treated
You know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today’s life and no discussion of the real conditions – which is really sickening.
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Classic Condition Discussion Fantasies Related Sickening Today
I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it’s all we need.
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Abstract Art Everybody Freedom Need Thinking
People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
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Care Condition General Make People Sick Society Tendency
The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
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Internet Simple Winning
We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves.
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Behind Contact Discrimination Expression Ignorant Leave Marrow Minded War
I think the pearls – one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl – really show a kind of [society] condition.
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Another Five Hundred Million Necklace Pearl Pound Thinking
[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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Care Culture Furthest Maybe People Understand
It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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Aware Country Easy Govern Job
No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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Claim Established Human Right Society State
What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
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Access Express Important Realm Wish
Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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Chinese Ever Government never Selected Thinking
Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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Cities Crazy Destroy Enjoy Much Nostalgic

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