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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. "
Peter Ustinov
Future
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Where
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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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" I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day. "
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" People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom. "
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" Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. "
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" The truth is an ambition which is beyond us. "
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" Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. "
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" To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. "
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" In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. "
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" At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. "
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" It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. "
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" The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends. "
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" Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique. "
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" Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them. "
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" Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. "
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