Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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Society becomes very destructive.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
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I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
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