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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.
Alfred Nobel
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Alfred Nobel
Age: 63 †
Born: 1833
Born: October 21
Died: 1896
Died: December 10
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