The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while China desires to understand the world, it fails to accept its universal values.
Ai Weiwei
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The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the g... ALEXANDER HAIG The Olympics in 2008 in Beijing and the World Expo in 2010 in Shanghai will ensure that the IT indus... JOE LIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA The market for Converters in China is enormous. It's an economy growing by leaps and bounds. Beijing... BLAKE EDWARDS Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you. KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS Judge not lest ye be judged. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re... JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO The market in the entire Asia/Pacific region is growing well, but it is extremely strong in China wi... GREG BUZEK How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL - Mrzim sve što je odricanje! - Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ... DOBRICA ĆOSIć In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been wi... DOUGLAS ADAMS There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terr... DOUGLAS ADAMS To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood the lesson. DEYTH BANGER She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s... ELIZABETH WINDER Boring people live boring lives. HABEEB AKANDE Can I buy you a drink when you get off?" "I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs." ERIC JEROME DICKEY He'd never forget what Naasir had said to him when Dmitri yelled that he didn't intend to bury anoth... NALINI SINGH Seeking survival, hostile, hidden from sight, Deliciously flavoured - juicy, sweet bite, E... CLAUDIA BAKKER He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door. “Ri... JEANIENE FROST Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti... FENNEL HUDSON I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing ... MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE Trying to control someone is like trying to control a bull in an china shop ,so instead of controlli... GARY F EVANS... I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, ... CHARLAINE HARRIS With the upcoming Beijing Olympics and the re-emergence of Shanghai as a great city of the world, de... COLETTE GARNSEY Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin... AKIROQ BROST China has no choice but to emulate the power of America’s founding ideas and its journey through t... PATRICK MENDIS The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the globa... ALEXANDER HAIG Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that.... JOHN GREEN Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much. DOUGLAS ADAMS The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizab... DOUGLAS ADAMS God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience. DOUGLAS ADAMS Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s ov... JOSS WHEDON Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE He created us for adventure, not ease. MARY E. 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ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. VICTOR SHAMAS I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Action is what will produce your desired results. ROSETTE MUGIDDE WAMAMBE The entire market in the Asia/Pacific region is growing well, but China is extremely strong, largely... GREG BUZEK Compared to the size of its economy and the fact that it is the biggest broadband market -- with 30 ... JOE LIN Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. ATTRIBUTED TO THE REV. DENNY BRAKE Promise me you'll always remember that you're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and s... CRISTOPHER ROBIN TO WINNIE THE POOH Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH China is beginning to act more like a world citizen. 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Kompjuter je samom sebi zbrinuto zaćeretao primijetivši da se jedna zračna komora otvorila i zati... DOUGLAS ADAMS He was already fading. I knew that it wouldn't be long until he was just a vague image, however much... CAROLINE GREEN Let me in the wall You've built around We can light a match And burn it down Let... THE CIVIL WARS I had nothing to say to these strangers, whoever or whatever they were. CATHERINE LACEY I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars. DAVID MACKAY Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to ne... DOUGLAS ADAMS What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev... MARIE LU One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. 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