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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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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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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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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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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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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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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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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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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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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
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Words are plentiful deeds are precious.
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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
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There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between
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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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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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I want to light the lights of patriotism.
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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 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 have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
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