Lech Walesa Quotes
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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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.
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I think it's what's best for that kid. Are you going to teach that kid a lesson for 10 years down the road by suspending him a game?
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.
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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.
