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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

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 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
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
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
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
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
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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Alone Goodness Peace
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
I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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Myself Personality
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
My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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Home Myself Work
Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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Greatness Lying One Liner Sin
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 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
The truthful man is usually a liar.
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Lying Man One Liner Truth

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