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" There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. "
Charles de Gaulle
Mystery
Contempt
Without
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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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" I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then. "
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" You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. "
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" For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. "
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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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" A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends. "
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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. "
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Country
Together
" The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks. "
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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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Habit
Country
" We are not here to laugh. "
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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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True
Always
" I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge. "
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Charge
Authority
" France cannot be France without greatness. "
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Cannot
Without
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" Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. "
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Drop
Drown
" Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last. "
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Young
Young Girls
Roses
" 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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" I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. "
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" When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time. "
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" The graveyards are full of indispensable men. "
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Graveyards
Indispensable
Men
" Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. "
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Character
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" Old age is a shipwreck. "
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Old Age
Age
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