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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

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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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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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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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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. – Herman Hesse

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Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking. – H.W. Byles

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To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that theyve known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is. – Christina Ricci

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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. – Ayn Rand

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Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. – Tupac Shakur

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There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, “He who hates vice hates mankind.” – W. MacNeile Dixon

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Dont give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company dont stop beating down their door till you get heard. Dont ever say itll never happen or itll never happen. – Mary J. Blige

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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. – Voltaire

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