The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable o

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. – G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

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