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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Charles de Gaulle

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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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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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These people really aim very badly.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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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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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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