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If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.
Peter Ustinov
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Peter Ustinov
Age: 82 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 16
Died: 2004
Died: March 28
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Film Director
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Camden
England
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov
Sir Peter Alexander von Ustinov
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We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.
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