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The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.
Peter Ustinov
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Peter Ustinov
Age: 82 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 16
Died: 2004
Died: March 28
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England
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov
Sir Peter Alexander von Ustinov
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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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British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.
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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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A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
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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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I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.
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Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.
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Please keep off the grass.
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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
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There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.
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World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest sense,in its only sense, the patriotism of humans who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.
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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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I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.
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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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That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.
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To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
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Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.
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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
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As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.
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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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