... the highest gifts are not measurable in dollars and cents. Beyond and above the class who run an account with the world and me...rely manage honestly to pay in kind for what they receive, there is a noble army--the Shakespeares and Miltons, the Newtons, Galileos and Darwins,--Watts, Morse, Howe, Lincoln, Garrison, John Brown--a part of the world's roll of honor--whose price of board and keep dwindles into nothingness when compared with what the world owes them; men who have taken of the world's bread and paid for it in immortal thoughts, invaluable inventions, new facilities, heroic deeds of loving self-sacrifice; men who dignify the world for their having lived in it and to whom the world will ever bow in grateful worship as its heroes and benefactors. It may not be ours to stamp our genius in enduring characters--but we can give what we are at its best.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that por...tion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural facilities: Revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives, that they come from God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have always found that when men have exhausted their own resources, they fall back on "the intentions of the Creator." But their... platitudes have ceased to have any influence with those women who believe they have the same facilities for communication with the Divine mind as men have.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I focus on my role as plant manager I can't help the fact that I'm a black, woman plant manager. I have to make the ... decisions ...... my job requires.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now ...include my little dog Fala. Well, of course I don't resent attacks, but Fala does resent them. You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, learning that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I had left him behind on the Aleutian Islands and had sent a destroyer back to find him--at a cost to the tax payers of two or three, or eight or twenty million dollars--his Scotch soul was furious. He has not been the same dog since.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »