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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

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
ALFRED NOBEL

Force Heart Love Stomach
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
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
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
My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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Home Myself Work
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
Contentment is the only real wealth.
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Reality Satisfaction Wealth
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
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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Goodness Ideas Myself Satisfaction
Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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One Liner Poison Stomach Worry Worst
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
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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Alone Goodness Peace
It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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Order Respect Worth
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
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.
ALFRED NOBEL

Deserve Myself Taste Worth

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