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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.

Charles de Gaulle

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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Command Count Importance Man
I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Authority Charge Myself Respect
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Climate Diplomat Rain
Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Destiny Feeing Instrument Myself
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
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
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Character Face Fall Himself Man
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?
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Face Greatness History Hope Love
You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Best Kill Live Yourself
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Paid Policy Risk War
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
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adapt Fast Strategy Yourself
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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Achievement Endeavour Leadership Remember
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Master Myself Politics Servant
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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Dangerous Nation Oneself Production Simplicity Threat

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