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"Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out."
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"No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself."
"When you are truly silent, the whole existence speaks to you."
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
"I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded."
"In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted."
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"My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help."
"The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now."
"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."
"It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail."
"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."
"The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen."
"The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being."
"I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction."
"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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