How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEI feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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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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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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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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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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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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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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