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" Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese. "
Charles de Gaulle
Cheese
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Together
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" 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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" 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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" I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro. "
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" The graveyards are full of indispensable men. "
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" Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. "
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" How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? "
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" You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul. "
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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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" No nation has friends only interests. "
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