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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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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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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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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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Words are plentiful deeds are precious.
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I want to light the lights of patriotism.
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I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and 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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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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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
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When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.
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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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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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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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You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.
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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.
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My health is very much improved.
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There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between
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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
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When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
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