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France has no friends, only interests.

Charles de Gaulle

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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Difficult Potential Realization
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Conclusion Important Myself Politics Serious
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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Choice Hard Inspirational Opponent Path Rival Way Yourself
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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Gold Government History Human Money Record
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
Old age is a shipwreck.
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Age Myself Old Perspective
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 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
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Breed Familiar Mystery Pride
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
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
It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Food Impossible Kind Nation
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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History Man Myself Satisfaction Solitude Temptation Yourself
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
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

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