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• Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Imagination, Inquiring

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• Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it touches their daily lives and where their influence is exerted on the government. It must not be a distant thing, someone else's business, but they must see how every cog in the wheel of a democracy is important and bears its share of responsibility for the smooth running of the entire machine.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Children, Responsibility

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• A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.

  Trevor Baylis

  Ideas, Mind, Machines

  "The Riddle: Where Ideas Come From and How to Have Better Ones". Book by Andrew Razeghi, 2008.

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• Okay - the world needs its cogs, all of them; and even a cog may say how it gets used. In fact, only a cog may determine its eventual meaning in the system. That's what I wanted to tell you.

  Keigo Higashino

  Needs, World, May

  Keigo Higashino (2011). “The Devotion of Suspect X: A Detective Galileo Novel”, p.219, Macmillan

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• What makes Disney movies and Pixar movies always so good, hey take time and they're constantly honing, and tweaking, and rejiggering things, and taking influences from every cog, including myself, that can help. Any place where there can be inspiration. They make every moment very layered and very rich.

  Sarah Silverman

  Inspiration, Hey, Helping

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So I try to make every player on my team feel he's the spark keeping our machine in motion.

  Knute Rockne

  Encouragement, Team, Player

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• By now you know: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, "Take me to your leaders." Even I--unused to your ways though I am--would never make that mistake. We ourselves have such beings among us, made of cogs, pieces of paper, small disks of shiny metal, scraps of coloured cloth. I do not need to encounter more of them. Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths." These are worth it. These are what I have come for.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dream, Mistake, Sunset

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• If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that's pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world.

  Steve Gleason

  People, Inspire, Purpose

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• We need adventure, we need meaning, we need identity. We need love. Someone who has seen us through loving eyes has awakened us from the ranks of the formerly dead. Most people bear the terminal stress of walking the world unseen, a mere number or cog in a lifeless machine.

  Marianne Williamson

  Stress, Eye, Adventure

  "Enchanted Love". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate.

  John M. McHugh

  Keys, Land, Challenges

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• The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones. What he has seen is the dormitory of the next managerial class.

  William H. Whyte

  Sympathy, Home, Class

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• The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

  Aldo Leopold

  Ignorance, Men, Animal

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.108, Oxford University Press

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• Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths." These are worth it. These are what I have come for.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dream, Sunset, Shoes

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Good Bones and Simple Murders”, p.138, Nan A. Talese

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• Hillary Clinton the centraliser that inter-connects all these different cogs.

  Julian Assange

  Different, Clinton

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.

  Nick Cave

  Evil, Plans, Blinders

  Song: Red Right Hand, Album: Let Love In

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• The question is how does Hilary Clinton fit in this broader network? She's a centralising cog. You've got a lot of different gears in operation from the big banks like Goldman Sachs and major elements of Wall Street, and Intelligence and people in the State Department and the Saudis.

  Julian Assange

  Wall, People, Doe

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• It's the same in the office, the lab, the factory. Employees and coworkers are more productive, more loyal - satisfied and happy - when they are treated fairly, decently, and with dignity than when they are used and taken for granted, when they feel like no more than a tiny cog in a giant corporate wheel.

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Taken, Office, Giants

  Wayne D. Dosick (2000). “The Business Bible: 10 New Commandments for Bringing Spirituality & Ethical Values Into the Workplace”, p.48, Jewish Lights Publishing

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• I am not yet born; O fill me
  With strength against those who would freeze my
  humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton
  would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with
  one face, a thing

  Louis MacNeice

  Prayer, Humanity, Machines

  'Prayer Before Birth' (1944)

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• Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

  George Orwell

  Machines, Capitalist, Humans

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a machine.

  Yukio Mishima

  Men, Skills, Machines

  Yukio Mishima, Tsunetomo Yamamoto (1977). “Yukio Mishima on Hagakure: the Samurai ethic and modern Japan”

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• It stems from my Australianisms and belief that everyone is a fundamental cog in the wheel.

  Janet Holmes a Court

  Leadership, Business, Fundamentals

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• I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.

  Edith Wharton

  Machines, Use, Found

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.791, Delphi Classics

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• In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Important, Wheels

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• I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine.

  Otto Ohlendorf

  Soldier, Machines, Facts

  "Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror". Book by Os Guinness, p.92, 2005.

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• It's great to be able to play the bad guy role because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why. How does a person get to that particular point? It's those little cogs in the wheel that make it interesting for me to play. Ultimately, I hope for the audience to be engaged with it because it is going to take a turn.

  Jimmy Smits

  Play, Interesting, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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