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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

Charles de Gaulle

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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Better Love Man Myself
Old age is a shipwreck.
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Age Myself Old Perspective
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
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Destiny Feeing Instrument Myself
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Ideas Life Myself
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
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
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Greatness Leadership Unknown
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Character Face Fall Himself Man
Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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Gold Government History Human Money Record
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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Achievement Determination Greatness Myself
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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Country Habit Marriage Old Time
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Art Ideal Politics Reality Service
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Myself Resistance Respect Tolerance
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Belong Deep Man Myself
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Conclusion Important Myself Politics Serious
It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Food Impossible Kind Nation
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Breed Familiar Mystery Pride
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Master Myself Politics Servant
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.
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Digestion Influence Life Myself Reading
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adapt Fast Strategy Yourself
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
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Character Difficult Fulfill Himself Man
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Paid Policy Risk War
Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Achievement Endeavour Leadership Remember
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Action Function Oneself

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