Lech Walesa Quotes
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I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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There's something about trying to figure out why someone is doing something that on the outside is horrible - what drives them to do that? What could drive any human being to that kind of behaviour?
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.
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You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them.
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Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.
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Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
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A person who is shallow aspires to depth; one who is ugly aspires to beauty; one who is narrow aspires to breadth; one who is poor aspires to wealth; one who is humble aspires to esteem. Whatever one lacks in oneself he must seek outside.
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Here files of pins extend their shining rows,Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.
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On second handers: They are always concerned with people - not facts, ideas, work or production. What would happen to the world without those who think, work, and produce?
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I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.
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There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.
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I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.
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The worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.
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I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.
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I'm a fatalist.
