Quote by Leonard Cohen
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. Tha

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. Thats what sitting on your ass does to your face. – Leonard Cohen

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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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Pollution
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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

Category:
Reflection
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The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and its overturned the order of the soul… – Leonard Cohen

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Soul
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Scholars, Scholarship
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Im a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. – J. M. Synge

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a persons power. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the worlds eye. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably. – Kim Stanley Robinson

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Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong. – Sir Edwin Arnold

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My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the governments false claims. – Kevin Mitnick

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