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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Charles de Gaulle

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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Best Kill Live Yourself
Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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Content Effect Leadership Man Management Ordinary
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
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
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
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
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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Build Ego Hard Perfection Pride
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
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Country Independent
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Belong Deep Man Myself
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Battle France Herself Lost War
Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Command Count Importance Man
It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Bad Better Choice Planning
I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Authority Charge Myself Respect
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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Choice Hard Inspirational Opponent Path Rival Way Yourself
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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Determination Fatal Freedom History Man Moments
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Decision Harmony Myself View
In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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Betrayal Country Election Necessary Politics
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
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Paid Policy Risk War
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.
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Myself Past Prevent Return
Old age is a shipwreck.
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Age Myself Old Perspective
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
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Bad Better
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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Beyond Commitment Imagination Stupidity Yourself
Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Character Hard Time Virtue
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

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