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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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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. – Leonard Cohen

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Sleep
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Leonard Cohen
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The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder. – Leonard Cohen

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

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Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked. – Ralph Nader

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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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Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so lets not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. – Ronald Reagan

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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? – Friedrich Nietzsche

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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. Im not kidding. – Harry Mathews

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It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. – Oscar Niemeyer

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architecture

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom. – George W. Bush

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