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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.

Ai Weiwei

It’s like the mountains, the ocean and the rivers. It has its own geological forms. Societies cannot be flat. But during change, human rights, human dignity and free speech have to be protected. Otherwise, we’ll be going backward.
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Backward Form Geographical Human Mountain Ocean Protected Right Speech
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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Case Constrain Flight Freedom Imprisoned Land Misconception
I call on people to be ‘obsessed citizens,’ forever questioning and asking for accountability. That’s the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
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Accountability Citizen Forever Happy Life Obsessed People Questioning
The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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Country Crises Little Possibility Rest Understand World
I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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Achieve Art Freedom Human Important Thinking Weapon
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
Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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Delay Freedom Human Moment Nature Stupidity Succeed Winning
If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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Laughing Look Successful
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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Democracy Education Material Soil Universal Wealth
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
It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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Another Importantly Old People Shared Understand Wonder World Young
I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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Country Future Museum Past Present Professional Thinking
I never think any place is better than others.
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Better Place Think Thinking
There’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
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Artwork Feeling Proud Relly Single Think Thinking Want
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
The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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Burden Changing Responsibility Shoulder World

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