"Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of……" — Leonard Cohen
"Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on."
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253 Quotes by Leonard Cohen
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain.…
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about…
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out…
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in…
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will…
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is…
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
— Richard Armour
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I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once…
— Kevin Bacon
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
— Abu Bakr
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The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at…
— James A. Baldwin
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
— Edward Abbey
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When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed.…
— Joe Biden
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
— William Blake
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
— Aesop
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People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
— Aesop
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is…
— Samuel Butler
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We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.
— Eric Cantona
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