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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
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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Alone Goodness Peace
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 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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Call Depression Improvement Myself Poetry Purpose Writing
Nature is man’s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.
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Breathe Existence Heart Influence Man Nature Purity Sound Teaching Treasure
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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Book Death Ink Life Man
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
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
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
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
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

My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

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