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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.

Alfred Nobel

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
ALFRED NOBEL

Brief Feeling Myself Writing
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.
ALFRED NOBEL

Ideas Leaving Myself Peace Result
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

Food Ideas Lose Myself Philosophy Reality
It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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Order Respect Worth
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
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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Alone Goodness Peace
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
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
Contentment is the only real wealth.
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Reality Satisfaction Wealth
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.
ALFRED NOBEL

Home Myself Work
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
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
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 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

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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