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Remember Me How?

The Nobel Prize was established by Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist, engineer and philanthropist who died in 1896.  But it was erroneously reported that he had died earlier, and when he read his obituary, this man who held 355 different patents, saw that the one most written about and which he would be most remembered by, and which would always identify him, was that he was the inventor of gunpowder.  He didn’t want to be remembered as a man who caused destruction, so he established the Nobel Prizes for creativity.

How will I be remembered?  For creating or destroying?



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