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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

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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Country Independent
You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Best Kill Live Yourself
Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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Favor Myself Talk Travel
It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Food Impossible Kind Nation
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Ideas Life Myself
I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Death Mindset Myself Patriot
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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Judgement Leadership Narrow Ordinary People
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Country Face heavy Myself Togetherness Trial
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Feeling Policy Reality Side Worth
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
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
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Master Myself Politics Servant
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
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
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Breed Familiar Mystery Pride
No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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