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Alfred Nobel

It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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Order Respect Worth
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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Brief Feeling Myself Writing
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
Contentment is the only real wealth.
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Reality Satisfaction Wealth
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
Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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Hide Hope Naked Nature 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
The truthful man is usually a liar.
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Lying Man One Liner Truth
Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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Greatness Lying One Liner Sin
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
Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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One Liner Poison Stomach Worry Worst
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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Book Death Ink Life Man
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
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
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
Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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Imagination Justice

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