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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Charles de Gaulle

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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Advantage Choice Government
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Action Function Oneself
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Adversity Bitter Himself Joy Responsibility Seek
Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Answer Myself Question Ready
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
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Feeling Policy Reality Side Worth
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
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Master Myself Politics Servant
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Character Face Fall Himself Man
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Dreams Glory Herself
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
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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Beyond Commitment Imagination Stupidity Yourself
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
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Belong Deep Man Myself
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Death Grave Man
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Myself Thinking

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