Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDon’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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These people really aim very badly.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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