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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the un
by known 12y ago
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw
- icebraining 12y agoFrom the same work, Maxims for Revolutionists: "Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material. Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better." http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26107/pg26107.txt http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26107/pg26107.txt (Thanks to the Gutenberg project)