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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
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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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You know Seymour, there are some men who cannot stand too much perfection. They see it as a disease, which must be stamped out at its first rash showing.
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The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.
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All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the hour of the great offenses - fix your bayonets boys - gentlemen, synchronize your watches - in ten seconds time the barrage starts,... a thousand men are destined to die in order to capture a farmhouse no one has lived in for years.
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And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.
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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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In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.
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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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What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?
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Politicians only get to the top because they have no qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
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It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.
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Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
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We have fought two wars to end war. In 1976, the nations of this world set aside the same amount of money for its starving children as they lavished on armaments every two hours. Can any right-minded man afford to be a pessimist? That was a luxury for easier days.
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Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
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Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
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To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
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The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
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The sea is calm you said. Peaceful. Calm above, but below a world of gliding monsters preying on their fellows. Murderers, all of them. Only the strongest teeth survive. And who's to tell me it's any different here on board, or yonder on dry land.
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Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
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The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
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Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
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The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
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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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Born:
April 16, 1921
Died:
March 28, 2004
(aged 82)
Bio:
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov was an English actor, writer and dramatist.
Known for:
Spartacus (1960)
Quo Vadis (1951)
Death on the Nile (1978)
Evil Under the Sun (1982)
Topkapi (1964)
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