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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt for mankind.
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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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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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There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between
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Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy.
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I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
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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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President Lech Kaczynski is not at all active in Poland and his image abroad leaves a lot to be desired.
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Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
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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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I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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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 am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity.
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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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The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.
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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
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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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I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
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I want to light the lights of patriotism.
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