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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
Lech Walesa
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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
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