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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

Charles de Gaulle

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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
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
It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Food Impossible Kind Nation
He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Dumb Himself Joke Laughter
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
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
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
Never relinquish the initiative.
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Dim Initiative
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Death Grave Man
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Believe Himself Politics Quite Word
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 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 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
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Conclusion Important Myself Politics Serious
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Myself Thinking

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