"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."

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

Keigo Higashino

#Facts Quotes #Cogs Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.”
“If Iâ€™m not saying â€˜Hell Yeah!â€™ to something, then I say no.”
“The more you get to know a person, the more attractive they become to you. Because everything beautiful you see on the inside of them, suddenly you see on the outside of them, too.”
“I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.”
“The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.”
“Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.”
“The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) by 2050.”
“Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and delight is like the mirage in the heavens, only plain to the eye outside; within is nothing.”

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