"To my thinking" boomed the Professor, begging the question as usual, "the greatest triumph of the human mind was the calculation ...of Neptune from the observed vagaries of the orbit of Uranus." "And yours," said the P.B.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Next week Reagan will probably announce that American scientists have discovered that the entire U.S. agricultural surplus can be ...compacted into a giant tomato one thousand miles across, which will be suspended above the Kremlin from a cluster of U.S. satellites flying in geosynchronous orbit. At the first sign of trouble the satellites will drop the tomato on the Kremlin, drowning the fractious Muscovites in ketchup.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... so long as woman sat with bandaged eyes and manacled hands, fast bound in the clamps of ignorance and inaction, the world of t...hought moved in its orbit like the revolutions of the moon; with one face (the man's face) always out, so that the spectator could not distinguish whether it was disc or sphere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all in...tellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself. Th...e genesis and maturation of a planet, its poise and orbit, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every animal and vegetable, are demonstrations of the self-sufficing and therefore self-relying soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit.... The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Books are the best things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to e...ffect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every woman who visited the Fair made it the center of her orbit. Here was a structure designed by a woman, decorated by women, ma...naged by women, filled with the work of women. Thousands discovered women were not only doing something, but had been working seriously for many generations ... [ellipsis in source] Many of the exhibits were admirable, but if others failed to satisfy experts, what of it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our b...osoms! No solar orbit hems it in, the inexhaustible wealth of the total visible creation is outweighed by its riches!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Government's] true strength consists in leaving individuals and states as much as possible to themselves--in making itself felt, ...not in its power, but in its beneficence, not in its control, but in its protection, not in binding the states more closely to the center, but leaving each to move unobstructed in its proper orbit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »