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Quote by Ai Weiwei
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts

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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I dont believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy. – Ai Weiwei

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Experience
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Ai Weiwei
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This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in Chinas relationship with the outside world. – Ai Weiwei

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relationship
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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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Imagination
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Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. – Janet Frame

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Imagination

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. – Charlie Chaplin

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Imagination

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. – Henry James

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Imagination

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action. – James Broughton

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Imagination

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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartletts Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. – Sir Winston Churchill

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Quotations

What charitable 1 percenters cant do is assume responsibility – Americas national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. – Stephen King

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Education

Peace of mind for five minutes, thats what I crave. – Alanis Morissette

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Peace

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldnt exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people. – John Warnock

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communication