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Alfred Nobel
Age: 63 †
Born: 1833
Born: October 21
Died: 1896
Died: December 10
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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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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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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
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Contentment is the only real wealth.
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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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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 am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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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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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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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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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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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
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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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Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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The truthful man is usually a liar.
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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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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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