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Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
Alfred Nobel
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Alfred Nobel
Age: 63 †
Born: 1833
Born: October 21
Died: 1896
Died: December 10
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A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
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Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.
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Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.
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I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.
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It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
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Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.
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Worry is the stomach's worst poison.
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The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.
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Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
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I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
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The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.
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It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
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The truthful man is usually a liar.
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