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The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.

Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
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I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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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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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
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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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For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.
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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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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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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 overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.
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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
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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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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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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 allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.
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