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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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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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And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart. – Leonard Cohen

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And let a scholar all earths volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. – George Chapman

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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. – James Russell Lowell

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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. – William Hazlitt

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Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news. – John le Carre

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With humans, it is like the bicycle. Only when moving can we easily keep balanced. – Albert Einstein, letter to son Eduard, 1930 February 5th, translated from German

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