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A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
Alfred Nobel
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Alfred Nobel
Age: 63 †
Born: 1833
Born: October 21
Died: 1896
Died: December 10
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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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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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My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.
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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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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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For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.
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