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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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They the government really want to maintain power. At the same time, they refuse to communicate. They refuse to have good intentions. They refuse to be sincere. How can that last?
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No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.
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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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This does not mean a meteor has fallen. This is the discovery of a star.
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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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What can they do besides exile me or make me disappear? They have no imagination or creativity.
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Anyone who cares about truth should avoid not politics, but Olympic lies.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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The population is in a constant state of enforced dislocation. So let us hope that a totally new culture will come out of this.
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Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.
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We need to get out of the old language.
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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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My voice is not for me. Every time I make a sentence I think how many people for how many generations had a voice that no one could hear. At most they will be remembered as numbers; in many cases, even numbers don’t exist.
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You can see China still cannot offer any real value to the world except as cheap labor, manufacturer, and its own so-called stability. Besides that, I don’t see any creative values and creative mind or thinking that can be announced from China. So this is the struggle China has to face in the next decades.
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The 2008 Olympics has created an illusion of China to the public and to the outside world. It is so fantastic, so unreal, that the entire meaning of the games is being distorted.
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Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.
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The Chinese government only superficially speaks the language of the international community.
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Once again, the facts have been erased.
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The frustration mainly comes from trying to understand what they really want. Also, you cannot understand how can such a large nation maintain its so-called stability by doing something very unlawful. I mean, how can they possibly manage to stabilize the whole social condition by not acting with justice and fairness.
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I think all aesthetic judgments-all the aesthetic choices we are making-are moral choices. They cannot escape the moral dimension in the broader sense. It has to relate to the philosophical understanding of who we are and how so-called 'art and culture' functions in today’s world.
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No autocracy can lead people to believe that they are living in harmony and happiness.
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My favorite word? It’s 'act.'