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Alfred Nobel
Age: 63 †
Born: 1833
Born: October 21
Died: 1896
Died: December 10
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Contentment is the only real wealth.
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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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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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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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Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
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Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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The truthful man is usually a liar.
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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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Good wishes alone will not ensure 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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I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
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The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.
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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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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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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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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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Worry is the stomach's worst poison.
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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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Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
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