Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWe may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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