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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.

Charles de Gaulle

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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Oneself Risk True Willing
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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Desire Domination Passion Privilege Time
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Breed Familiar Mystery Pride
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Friendship Man State
I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Embarrassment Myself Revolution
Old age is a shipwreck.
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Age Myself Old Perspective
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
Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Answer Myself Question Ready
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
The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Alone Bad Fate Hard Time Leadership
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
Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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Day Flame Myself Resistance Talk
Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Fall Grave Man Thinking World Yourself
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
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Master Myself Politics Servant
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Country Independent

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