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I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

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I think that reality exists and that it's knowable. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

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The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

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There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

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To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

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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. ↗

— Lech Walesa

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being. ↗

— Lech Walesa

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For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world. ↗

— Lech Walesa

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Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it. ↗

— Lech Walesa

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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. ↗

— Lech Walesa

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