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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

Charles de Gaulle

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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Adversity Bitter Himself Joy Responsibility Seek
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
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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Generosity Skin Soul Start Yourself
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Greatness Leadership Unknown
I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Authority Charge Myself Respect
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
Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Answer Myself Question Ready
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
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Country Food Funny Government Yourself
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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Achievement Determination Greatness Myself
Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Character Hard Time Virtue
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
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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Death Hero Humanity Possible Sacrifice Tolerance
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Difficult Potential Realization
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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Civilization Freedom Leisure Root Work
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Myself Resistance Respect Tolerance
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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Love Nation Patriot People Yourself
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Better Love Man Myself
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
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
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 future does not belong to men.
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Future Man One Liner
Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Genius Stop Time
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Oneself Risk True Willing
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
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
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Feeling Policy Reality Side Worth

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