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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.

Ai Weiwei

A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity.
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Creativity Discuss Healthy Openly Thought Wish
The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
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Individual Internet Made Society Structure Time
The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.
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Computer Effort People Technology Understand
Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
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Border Idea Interest Move Own Physical Problem Solving Voter
I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it’s like a mafia family’s law. It’s independent to the law this nation openly applies.
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Country Crime Independent Internal Modeled Most Party Prison Restricted Year
If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?
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Art Nothing Pain People Sorrow
I never regret anything.
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Anything never Regret
For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
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Breathe Express Heart Long Myself Pumping
The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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Government Graduate Immense Job Million Problem Scramble Seven Solution
The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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Burden Changing Responsibility Shoulder World
The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.
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Attitude Different More Much Open Realize Society Way
I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there – any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog.
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Apply Artwork Blog Country Participated Passport
That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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Competition Country Face Measure Open Resort
It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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Before Confess Everything Judicial Over Place Stay Suffer System
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
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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Above Beyond Experience Feeling Over People Physical Poetry Reality

I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.

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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.

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