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I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.

Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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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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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 have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
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I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
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I want to light the lights of patriotism.
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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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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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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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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 am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.
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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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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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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.
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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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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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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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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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