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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.

Charles de Gaulle

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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Command Count Importance Man
Never relinquish the initiative.
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Dim Initiative
The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Communism Evolution Inevitable
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Governement Oneself
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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Myself Past Prevent Return
Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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Country Different Funny Oneself Togetherness Unity
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Difficult Potential Realization
France has no friends, only interests.
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Friendship Interest Selfish
France cannot be France without greatness.
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France Greatness One Liner
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Adversity Bitter Himself Joy Responsibility Seek
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
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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Compare Rapid Scope Transformation World
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adapt Fast Strategy Yourself
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Alone Country Friendship Greatness Name Worth
A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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Attraction Character Difficult Himself Man Potential Realization
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Country Food Himself System Variety

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