My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
AI WEIWEITechnology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
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We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today’s political leaders are still lacking of the vision.
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I never think any place is better than others.
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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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Hopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
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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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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.
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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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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we’ll have competition.
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