Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
AI WEIWEINowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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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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It’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.
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Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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I never think any place is better than others.
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The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that’s all I know.
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And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
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You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of.
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