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If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good,... by Aldo Leopold

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.

Aldo Leopold
tinkering cogs land
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligen... by Aldo Leopold

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

Aldo Leopold
cogs intelligent nature

The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.

Charles Caleb Colton
cogs liberty fire

I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think my interest in that takes the pressure of myself.

Charlize Theron
cogs pressure thinking

Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it, and women have really been in those quieter moments at the edge of history. But, really, they're the ones who are turning the cogs and the wheels and allowing things like the peace process to happen.

Colum McCann
cogs men believe

Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.

David Corbett
cogs plot character

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

Deborah Tannen
cogs independence communication

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence

Deborah Tannen
cogs independence communication

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.

Douglas Coupland
cogs eccentric worry

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
cogs machines use
Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the... by George Orwell

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

George Orwell
cogs capitalist machines

Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.

Ha Jin
cogs voice writing
It stems from my Australianisms and belief that everyone is a fun... by Janet Holmes a Court

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

Janet Holmes a Court
cogs business leadership

In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.

Jean Cocteau
cogs mistake men

I only wanted to be a good employee who generated as much profit as possible for his employer. I was merely a small cog in the machine - and now I'm suddenly supposedly the main person responsible for the financial crisis.

Jerome Kerviel
cogs machines financial

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
cogs machines suffering
Hillary Clinton the centraliser that inter-connects all these dif... by Julian Assange

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

Julian Assange
cogs clinton different

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
cogs world needs
When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wond... by Ken Knabb

When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function.

Ken Knabb
cogs machines wonder
I am not yet born; O fill me by Louis MacNeice

I am not yet born; O fill me

Louis MacNeice
cogs humanity prayer
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