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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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Camden
England
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov
Sir Peter Alexander von Ustinov
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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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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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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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I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.
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Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.
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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
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Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.
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Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.
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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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To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.
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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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To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
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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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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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Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.
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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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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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If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.
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I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.
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