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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

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
Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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Greatness Lying One Liner Sin
It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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Order Respect Worth
The truthful man is usually a liar.
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Lying Man One Liner Truth
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 a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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Myself Personality
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
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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Alone Goodness Peace
Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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Imagination Justice
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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