In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a w...orld that no longer exists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Two men in a skiff, whom we passed hereabouts, floating buoyantly amid the reflections of the trees, like a feather in mid-air, or... a leaf which is wafted gently from its twig to the water without turning over, seemed still in their element, and to have very delicately availed themselves of the natural laws. Their floating there was a beautiful and successful experiment in natural philosophy, and it served to ennoble in our eyes the art of navigation; for as birds fly and fishes swim, so these men sailed. It reminded us how much fairer and nobler all the actions of man might be, and that our life in its whole economy might be as beautiful as the fairest works of art or nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Musicians are seldom unemotional; a woman who could sing like that must know how to love indeed. Girls brought up [as you wer...e,] in a very strait-laced and puritan fashion, always pant for liberty and happiness, and the happiness they have never comes up to what they imagined. Those are the girls that make bad wives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Publicity! publicity! was the persistent demand. To meet the demand, small papers, owned and edited by women, sprang up all over t...he land, and like Jonah's gourd, perished in a night.... No use waiting to learn to put two consecutive sentences together in any connected form, or for an idea or the power of expressing it. One woman was printing her productions, and why should not all the rest do likewise? They had so long followed some leader like a flock of sheep, that now they would rush through the first gap into newspaperdom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like nuclear power, genetic engineering is not a neutral technology. It is by its very nature too powerful for our present state o...f social and scientific development, no matter whose hands are controlling it. Just as we would say, especially after Chernobyl, that a nuclear power plant is just as dangerous in a socialist nation as it is in a capitalist one, so I would say the same thing for genetic engineering. It is inherently Eugenic in that it always requires someone to decide what is a good and a bad gene.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Summoning a child's voice from a webfoot stone, Never never oh never to regret the bugle I wore... On my cleaving arm as I blasted in a wave. Now shown and mostly bare I would lie down, Lie down, like down and live As quiet as a bone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... such are the secret outcomes of revolution!... that two women can meet ... as two eyes in one brow receiving at one moment the rainbow of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the ri...ght of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »