“Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can’t think of it.”
Source: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 10 “The Ultimate Bridge” (p. 52)
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“Strategy will compensate the talent.
The talent will never compensate the strategy.”

Letter to Benjamin Banneker (30 August 1791) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mtj:@field(DOCID+@lit(tj060149))
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Context: No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America.

“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
Letter from Johnson to John Taylor, 18 August 1763. The Yale Book of Quotations edited by Fred R. Shapiro, pg 400.

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