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Old age is a shipwreck.

Charles de Gaulle

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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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Compare Rapid Scope Transformation World
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 characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Character Difficult Fulfill Himself Man
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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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
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
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Feeling Policy Reality Side Worth
Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Character Hard Time Virtue
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Action Alone Man Oneself Work
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Country Food Himself System Variety
He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Dumb Himself Joke Laughter
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Climate Diplomat Rain
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
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
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
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

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