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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

Charles de Gaulle

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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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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
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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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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History Man Myself Satisfaction Solitude Temptation Yourself
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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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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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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