Quote by Ai Weiwei
The American experience influenced my understanding of individuali

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens. – Ai Weiwei

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The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination. – Ai Weiwei

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Imagination
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Censorship is saying: Im the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine. But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper. – Ai Weiwei

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power
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The Birds Nest National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of fair competition. It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength. – Ai Weiwei

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Courage
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Experience
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Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent. – Jan Peter Balkenende

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Experience

The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime. – Shirley MacLaine

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Experience

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the Today programme and item four on the news was: The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership. I lay there thinking thats interesting, then I realised it was me. – George Osborne

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Experience

Doesnt all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? – Ellen Glasgow

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Experience

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History is the propaganda of the victors. – Ernst Toller

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History

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. – Mark Twain

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Conformity

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground. – Maya Lin

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dad

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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Emotions