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He who laughs last didn't get the joke.
Charles de Gaulle
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Charles de Gaulle
Age: 79 †
Born: 1890
Born: November 22
Died: 1970
Died: November 9
Former President Of The French Republic
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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
General Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle
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I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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One cannot govern with 'buts'.
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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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France has no friends, only interests.
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Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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You'll live. Only the best get killed.
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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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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!
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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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It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator?
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.
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