Posted by Ginny on October 7th, 2009 (All posts by Ginny)
“He regarded himself as an instrument, which he used tirelessly for the benefit of others.”
The world honors Borlaug here and here.
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October 7th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Ginny,
Those two links appear to go to the same place.
October 8th, 2009 at 7:54 am
Sorry. Fixed, but both are bare and repetitive. Still, isn’t that a wonderful line about the self as “instrument”? It’s an ag engineer’s metaphor, perhaps, but it is a Franklin self-definition.