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21 " I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world. "
― Peter Ustinov
22 " If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing. "
23 " unfortuneately a super abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential of nightmares "
24 " To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness. "
25 " The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us "
26 " Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well. "
― Peter Ustinov , Dear Me
27 " Ein Philosoph ist ein Mann, der in Ermangelung einer Frau die ganze Welt umarmt. "
28 " Bildung ist wichtig, vor allem wenn es gilt, Vorurteile abzubauen. Wenn man schon ein Gefangener seines eigenen Geistes ist, kann man wenigstens dafür sorgen, dass die Zelle anständig möbliert ist. "
29 " If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished. "
30 " The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay off my American Express Bill"- Peter Ustinov, 1921-2004 "
31 " There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts. "
32 " Politicians only get to the top because they have no qualifications to detain them at the bottom. "
33 " I love history. It's so old." - Attributed to Peter Ustinov. "
34 " Like pornographers fretting under the burden of their wish dreams, these obscene buffoons suddenly found it unnecessary to assuage their fever among the pages of forbidden books or to pay for relief in some bordello, because a government of lonely fanatics swept into power and gradually lent official sanction to the dirtiest, saddest aspects of human nature, the lack of imagination which leads the ill to put their most libidinous nightmares into practice. "
― Peter Ustinov , We Were Only Human
35 " The lack of a personal core is at the base of such men, the inability to support doubt in any form, the fear of facing themselves... "
36 " People at the top of the tree are those without qualifications to detain those at the bottom "