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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.

Charles de Gaulle

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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Authority Charge Myself Respect
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adapt Fast Strategy Yourself
Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Authority Distance Work
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
I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Death Mindset Myself Patriot
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Authority Build Shelter Silence Strong Weakness
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Myself Resistance Respect Tolerance
Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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Content Effect Leadership Man Management Ordinary
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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Build Ego Hard Perfection Pride
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Attraction Difficult Embrace Himself Realization
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
I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Embarrassment Myself Revolution
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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Digestion Influence Life Myself Reading
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Enjoyment Equality Himself Passion Privilege
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
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Breed Familiar Mystery Pride
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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Determination Fatal Freedom History Man Moments
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Conclusion Important Myself Politics Serious
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
It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Food Impossible Kind Nation
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
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Adversity Bitter Himself Joy Responsibility Seek
Never relinquish the initiative.
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Dim Initiative
Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Fall Grave Man Thinking World Yourself
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Action Function Oneself
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Day Death Evening Judgement Life Oneself Wait

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