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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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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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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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I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.
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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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We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity.
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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
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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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You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.
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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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Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.
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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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When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
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There is something of the warrior in me.
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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
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I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
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There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between
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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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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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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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