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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.
Lech Walesa
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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
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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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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.
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Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.
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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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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'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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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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Words are plentiful deeds are precious.
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