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"All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people." I really like this quote. That's not the quote. Ironically, it has been bowdlerized: http://books.go
by gruseom 15y ago
"All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people." I really like this quote.
That's not the quote. Ironically, it has been bowdlerized: http://books.google.com/books?id=fYDSuENw1BoC&pg=PA189&dq=unreasonable+intitle:man+and+superman http://books.google.com/books?id=fYDSuENw1BoC&pg=PA189&#...
Besides using correct syntax for 1903, the language of the original is incomparably more alive.
This can't be Hart's doing. A man who devoted his life to preserving original texts (including this quote itself in http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26107/pg26107.txt http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26107/pg26107.txt) would never have had the bad taste to botch it like this. I suppose if whoever did had bothered to quote the title, he would have renamed it People and Superpeople.
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- bootload 15y agothx @gruseom 2 things I didn't know, source of the quote & bowdlerized: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bowdler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bowdler