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

Alfred Nobel

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
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
It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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Order Respect Worth
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
Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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One Liner Poison Stomach Worry Worst
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
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
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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Alone Goodness Peace
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
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
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
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
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
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

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