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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

Alfred Nobel

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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Hell Place Proper Weapon
The truthful man is usually a liar.
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Lying Man One Liner Truth
I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
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Deserve Myself Taste Worth
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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Food Ideas Lose Myself Philosophy Reality
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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Goodness Ideas Myself Satisfaction
Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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Imagination Justice
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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Ideas Leaving Myself Peace Result
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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Difference Human Knowledge Observation Search State
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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Book Death Ink Life Man
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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Excellence Force Impossible Volume War Writing
Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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Greatness Lying One Liner Sin
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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Army Civilization Dynamite End Horror Nation Plant War
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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Action Difficult Dreams Leaving Life Man Work
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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Believe Law Live People
Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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heavy Purity Reading Reason Style
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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Expression Fair Justice Myself Nation Reward Worth

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