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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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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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Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well.

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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
J. G. Ballard

Peter Ustinov

Peter Ustinov
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Born: April 16, 1921
Died: March 28, 2004 (aged 82)
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