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Quote by Leonard Cohen
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region. – Leonard Cohen

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Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that youre not and thats what you always reach for in a song. – Leonard Cohen

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Women
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I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and hes written poetry then let the verdict be that hes a poet. – Leonard Cohen

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Poetry
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Leonard Cohen
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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. Its for others its for others to use. – Leonard Cohen

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The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die. – John Steinbeck

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I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air. – William Shakespeare

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No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves. – Rachel Carson

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The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. – Ren

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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. – H. Jackson Brown

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There is nothing impossible to him who will try. – Alexander The Great

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Dont necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. – Donald Rumsfeld

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