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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

Charles de Gaulle

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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
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Belong Deep Man Myself
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adapt Fast Strategy Yourself
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
It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Bad Better Choice Planning
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?
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Face Greatness History Hope Love
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Believe Himself Politics Quite Word
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Day Death Evening Judgement Life Oneself Wait
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Confidence Domination Elite People Time
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
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Dreams Glory Herself
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Country Independent
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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Love Nation Patriot People Yourself
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
Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Authority Distance Work
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
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
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
Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Army Brilliant Mistake Planning Victory
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
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
Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Answer Myself Question Ready
Old age is a shipwreck.
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Age Myself Old Perspective
Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Genius Stop Time
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Action Alone Man Oneself Work
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Better Love Man Myself
France has no friends, only interests.
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Friendship Interest Selfish

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