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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

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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
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Character Face Fall Himself Man
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Adversity Bitter Himself Joy Responsibility Seek
Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Answer Myself Question Ready
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Myself Thinking
Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Command Count Importance Man
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Advantage Choice Government
He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Dumb Himself Joke Laughter
Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Authority Distance Work
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
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
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Action Alone Man Oneself Work
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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Different Food Government Kind Nation Rule
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
France has no friends, only interests.
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Friendship Interest Selfish

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