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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.
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I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
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Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of divisions, different blocs and borders, opening the way for an era of globalization.
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Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.
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There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between
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What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.
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My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.
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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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It all came from there, Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.
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The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.
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I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
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My health is very much improved.
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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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I want to light the lights of patriotism.
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Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
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Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity.
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Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.
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The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
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I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.
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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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