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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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This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.
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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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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
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Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other direction, it suggests to me that our job is still more difficult than their new one.
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The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
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Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.
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At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
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If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
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Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
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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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I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.
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Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.
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Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.
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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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