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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

Charles de Gaulle

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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.
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Action Character Crisis Face Himself Responsibility
For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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Faith France Guide Rule
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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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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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
The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Alone Bad Fate Hard Time Leadership
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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Death Hero Humanity Possible Sacrifice Tolerance
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
I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Death Myself Thankful
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 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
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Governement Oneself
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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