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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Charles de Gaulle

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adapt Fast Strategy Yourself
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Action Alone Man Oneself Work
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Ideas Life Myself
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Advantage Choice Government
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Decision Harmony Myself View
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Climate Diplomat Rain
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Country Food Funny Government Yourself
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
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Governement Oneself
I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Death Myself Thankful
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
Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Fall Grave Man Thinking World Yourself
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Annoy Country Creation Invention
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Agreement Girl Last Rose Young
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Country Independent
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Art Ideal Politics Reality Service

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