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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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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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The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.
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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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Capitalism is in crisis.
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Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.
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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between
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Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
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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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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 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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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 believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs.
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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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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
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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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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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I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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