Quote by Alfred Nobel
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

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

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Death
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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. – Alfred Nobel

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Pacifism
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The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being. – Florida Scott-Maxwell

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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy. – Dorothy Thompson

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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese? – Charles de Gaulle, about France

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A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. – Author Unknown