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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."
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"Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences."

"A fool's bolt is soon shot."

"If it's the benefit to myself that drives my decisions, I can know that I'm driving down a long road with a short bridge."

"If you step on a serpent, it will reply you with its fangs."

"We work hard to believe that our actions really don't affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much."

"However, in many instances we might be very wise to ask what the consequence of removing the consequence might actually be."

"No matter how strong you are, you don't just fight any fight at all! When you fight a wrong fight, you die a wrong death!"

"Good intentions but bad results, bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark."

"Every blade has two edges, he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other."
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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."

"As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world."

"I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world."

"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."

"Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out."

"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."

"The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now."

"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?"

"This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity."
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