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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.

Belonging - Guns - Wishing

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Alfred Nobel

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My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

Home

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Alfred Nobel

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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.

Funding - Promotion - Skepticism

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Alfred Nobel

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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.

Benevolence - Food - Philosophy

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Alfred Nobel

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Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

Hiding - Hope - Nature - Truth

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Alfred Nobel

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Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

Altruism - Cynicism - Hiding - Spiritual - Truth

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Alfred Nobel

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Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

Age - Agriculture - Industry

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Alfred Nobel

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Worry is the stomach's worst poison.

Poison - Worrying

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Alfred Nobel

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It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.

Ethics - Order - Respect - Worth

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Alfred Nobel

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

Food - Force - Love - Persuasion

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Alfred Nobel

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

Eloquence - Feelings - Impossible - Writing

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Alfred Nobel

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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Alone - Good - Peace - Willing - Wishing

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Alfred Nobel

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The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.

Conventions - Countries - Government - Solution - War

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Alfred Nobel

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

Love - Persuasion

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Alfred Nobel

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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.

Benevolence - Idealism - Philosophy

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Alfred Nobel

Chemist, Engineer, Inventor, Businessman

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

Eloquence - Feelings - Impossible - Writing

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Alfred Nobel

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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.

Pretense - Purpose - Writing

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Alfred Nobel

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I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.

Benevolence

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Alfred Nobel

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The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.

Beginner - Father - Professor - Show - Time - War

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Alfred Nobel

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Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

Belief - Lawyer - Living - Making - People

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