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

Charles de Gaulle

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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
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
Never relinquish the initiative.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Friendship Man State
You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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
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
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Country Face heavy Myself Togetherness Trial
Old age is a shipwreck.
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Age Myself Old Perspective
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Adversity Bitter Himself Joy Responsibility Seek
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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Love Nation Patriot People Yourself
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Destiny Feeing Instrument Myself
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Advantage Choice Government
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Better Love Man Myself
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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Determination Fatal Freedom History Man Moments

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