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The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself. ↗

— John Bolton

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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

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As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement. ↗

— Willard Libby

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I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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