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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.

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
It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Food Impossible Kind Nation
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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Breathe Element Excitement Leadership Public Surprise True
Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Authority Distance Work
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
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Myself Thinking
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
France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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Build Image Nation Sword
Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Genius Stop Time
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Agreement Girl Last Rose Young
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
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
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
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Annoy Country Creation Invention
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Belong Deep Man Myself
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
Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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Country Different Funny Oneself Togetherness Unity
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Paid Policy Risk War
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Feeling Policy Reality Side Worth
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Dreams Glory Herself
Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Character Hard Time Virtue
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Decision Harmony Myself View
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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History Man Myself Satisfaction Solitude Temptation Yourself
For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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Faith France Guide Rule
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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Myself Past Prevent Return
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
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

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