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Deep faith eliminates fear.

Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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My health is very much improved.
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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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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
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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 am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
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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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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 think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.
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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
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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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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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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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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 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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I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
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I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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Capitalism is in crisis.
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My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.
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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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