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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Charles de Gaulle

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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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Country Food Himself System Variety
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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Country Different Funny Oneself Togetherness Unity
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
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Paid Policy Risk War
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
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
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
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adapt Fast Strategy Yourself
The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Alone Bad Fate Hard Time Leadership
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
We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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Discover Distance Far Greatness Lying Moon
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Confidence Domination Elite People Time
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Greatness Leadership Unknown
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Agreement Girl Last Rose Young
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Dreams Glory Herself
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Action Function Oneself

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