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To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
Peter Ustinov
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Peter Ustinov
Age: 82 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 16
Died: 2004
Died: March 28
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Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov
Sir Peter Alexander von Ustinov
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I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other.
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
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To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.
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American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.
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I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.
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When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach
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Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
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