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Quote by Ai Weiwei
This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything

This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. Made-in-China goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We cant manufacture the happiness of our people. – Ai Weiwei

Other quotes by Ai Weiwei

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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Ai Weiwei
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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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Other Quotes from
Happiness
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. – William Feather

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Happiness

I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success. – Diego Val

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Happiness

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. – Frederick Keonig

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Happiness

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. – Aristotle

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Happiness

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If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing? – Bo Bennett

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A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes — so check your value to the community. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Community

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. – John Adams

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Desires

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. – Richard Russo

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Nature