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Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.

Alfred Nobel

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
I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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Myself Personality
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
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Force Heart Love Stomach
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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Attack Country Government Solution True
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
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
Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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Hide Hope Naked Nature True
Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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Imagination Justice
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
Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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Greatness Lying One Liner Sin
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
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
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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Book Death Ink Life Man
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
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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Army Destroy Gold Leadership Man Peace World
It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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Order Respect Worth

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