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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.

Alfred Nobel

It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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Order Respect Worth
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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Book Death Ink Life Man
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
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
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
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
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
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
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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Alone Goodness Peace
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
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
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
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
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
Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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One Liner Poison Stomach Worry Worst
Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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Hide Hope Naked Nature True

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