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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
Dissident
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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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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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I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
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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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This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.
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I want to light the lights of patriotism.
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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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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 health is very much improved.
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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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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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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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The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.
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Capitalism is in crisis.
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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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There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between
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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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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 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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