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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Charles de Gaulle

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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Adversity Bitter Himself Joy Responsibility Seek
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adapt Fast Strategy Yourself
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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Achievement Determination Greatness Myself
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Difficult Potential Realization
Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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Favor Myself Talk Travel
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Destiny Feeing Instrument Myself
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Bad Better
Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Command Count Importance Man
France has no friends, only interests.
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Friendship Interest Selfish
In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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Betrayal Country Election Necessary Politics
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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Breathe Element Excitement Leadership Public Surprise True
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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Action Character Crisis Face Himself Responsibility
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Governement Oneself
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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Angry Myself Right Time Wrong
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Agreement Girl Last Rose Young
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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Desire Domination Passion Privilege Time

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