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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

Charles de Gaulle

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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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Achievement Endeavour Leadership Remember
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Better Love Man Myself
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Character Face Fall Himself Man
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Agreement Girl Last Rose Young
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
He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Dumb Himself Joke Laughter
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
You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Best Kill Live Yourself
Old age is a shipwreck.
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Age Myself Old Perspective
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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Civilization Freedom Leisure Root Work
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Country Independent
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Paid Policy Risk War
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
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adapt Fast Strategy Yourself
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Authority Build Shelter Silence Strong Weakness
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

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