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There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
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I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
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I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
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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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Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
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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 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 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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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 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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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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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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Words are plentiful deeds are precious.
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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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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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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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