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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

Charles de Gaulle

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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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Betrayal Country Election Necessary Politics
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
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Breed Familiar Mystery Pride
Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Army Brilliant Mistake Planning Victory
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Attraction Difficult Embrace Himself Realization
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Belong Deep Man Myself
I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Death Mindset Myself Patriot
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Character Difficult Fulfill Himself Man
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
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
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Action Function Oneself
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Confidence Domination Elite People Time
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
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Better Love Man Myself
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Feeling Policy Reality Side Worth

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