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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Charles de Gaulle

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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Enjoyment Equality Himself Passion Privilege
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
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
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Battle France Herself Lost War
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
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Greatness Leadership Unknown
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Death Grave Man
The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Alone Bad Fate Hard Time Leadership
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Day Death Evening Judgement Life Oneself Wait
A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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Attraction Character Difficult Himself Man Potential Realization
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
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
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Destiny Feeing Instrument Myself
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
The future does not belong to men.
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Future Man One Liner
I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Death Mindset Myself Patriot
He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Dumb Himself Joke Laughter
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
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
Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Authority Distance Work
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adapt Fast Strategy 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
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Action Alone Man Oneself Work
Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Character Hard Time Virtue
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Climate Diplomat Rain
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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Angry Myself Right Time Wrong

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