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The Birds Nest National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is de

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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I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I dont think they believe that. Its just an argument thats made when you cant confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power. – Ai Weiwei

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Leadership
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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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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. Its a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. – Ai Weiwei

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architecture
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Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared. – Eddie Rickenbacker

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Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. – Douglas Malloch

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Courage

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy. – Socrates

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Courage

The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect. – Bill Frist

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All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood. – Benjamin Spock

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Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development. – Anna Lindh

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I look forward to the future – and going into the studio to make new music. – Diana Ross

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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. – Thomas Carlyle

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