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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.

Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
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Words are plentiful deeds are precious.
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It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.
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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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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
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There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between
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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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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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It all came from there, Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.
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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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My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
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You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?
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This is the moment of your defeat you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.
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I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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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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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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I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.
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Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
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