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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.


Peter Ustinov

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PETER ACKROYD Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worr...
PETER YORK I'm not a fashion architect. I don't dress in Ralph Lauren and Gucci. When I buy a suit, I b...
PETER EISENMAN Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize...
PETER RENA When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
PETER MCWILLIAMS If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
PETER HANDKE Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be so...
PETER DAVID Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.
PETER KREEFT Twisting lemons into lemonade.
PETER DUCHAN We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because w...
PETER GELDERLOOS By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice th...
PETER KREEFT There is a pain you can’t think your way out of. You can’t talk it away. If there was someone to...
PETER HELLER We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an i...
PETER KREEFT We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as tr...
PETER REDGROVE