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Charles de Gaulle

"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 Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."

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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

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"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

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"I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!"

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"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."

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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

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"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

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"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate."
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"France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war."
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"Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance."
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"It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge."
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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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"There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt."
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"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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"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
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