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Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
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The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
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Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.
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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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If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
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I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.
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Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
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I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.
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It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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To all those who by accident or design, have not been included in this book.
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What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?
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It's hot. And there's a lot of it. I like everything about it except the flavor.
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I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.
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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
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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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This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.
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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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Revolutions have never succeeded unless the establishment does three-quarters of the work.
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Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
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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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The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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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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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
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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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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Peter Ustinov
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Born:
April 16, 1921
Died:
March 28, 2004
(aged 82)
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