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

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Worry is the stomach's worst poison.

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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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Justice is to be found only in imagination.

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My new explosive, called dynamite, is simply nitroglycerin in combination with a very porous silicate.

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The truthful man is usually a liar.

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

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Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.

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

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My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men find that in one instant whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.

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

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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.

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