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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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Alfred Nobel
Age: 63 †
Born: 1833
Born: October 21
Died: 1896
Died: December 10
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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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Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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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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Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
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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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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 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 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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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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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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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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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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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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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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Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
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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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