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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Charles de Gaulle

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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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Habit Marriage Old Time
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Choice Hard Inspirational Opponent Path Rival Way Yourself
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Food Himself System Variety
Old age is a shipwreck.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Age Myself Old Perspective
It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Food Impossible Kind Nation
I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Authority Charge Myself Respect
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Adapt Fast Strategy Yourself
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Myself Past Prevent Return
One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Dangerous Nation Oneself Production Simplicity Threat
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Action Character Crisis Face Himself Responsibility
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Difficult Potential Realization
These people really aim very badly.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Bad Goal People
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Day Death Evening Judgement Life Oneself Wait
I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Death Myself Thankful
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Independent
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Battle France Herself Lost War

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