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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.

Charles de Gaulle

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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Country Face heavy Myself Togetherness Trial
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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Different Food Government Kind Nation Rule
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Decision Harmony Myself View
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Climate Diplomat Rain
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Feeling Policy Reality Side Worth
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
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Governement Oneself
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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Judgement Leadership Narrow Ordinary People
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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Discover Distance Far Greatness Lying Moon
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Advantage Choice Government
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Breed Familiar Mystery Pride
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Difficult Potential Realization
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Action Function Oneself
It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Food Impossible Kind Nation
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Belong Deep Man Myself
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Character Difficult Fulfill Himself Man

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