"We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles."

-- Thomas A. Edison

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“Une histoire d'amour dont les Ã©pisodes ont Ã©tÃ© mÃ©langÃ©s par un fou”
“I have never judged myself by other peopleâ€™s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.”
“We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no gods or emperors. We do not believe in the existence of any saviour. We want to be masters of the world and not instruments used by autocrats to carry out their wild ambitions. We want a modern lifestyle and democracy for the people. Freedom and happiness are our sole objectives in accomplishing modernisation.”

Source : "Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2011.
“I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.”
“We are pretty sure that we and our pets share the same reality, until one day we come home to find that our wistful, intelligent friend who reminds us of our better self has decided a good way to spend the day is to open a box of Brillo pads, unravel a few, distribute some throughout the house, and eat or wear all the rest. And we shake our heads in an inability to comprehend what went wrong here.”
“...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all images seem equally important and equally trivial.”
“No regrets. There is no time for that. Regret is boring.”
“In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now.”

Source : Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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