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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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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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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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man –and after that, praying. – Proverb

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Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But Im past that age. – Katharine Hepburn

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I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I dont know for sure. – Craig Ferguson

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Age

The lost leaves measure our years; they are gone as the days are gone. – Richard Jefferies, The Life of the Fields, 1908

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We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them. – Peter Chernin

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All mankind love a lover. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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