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    #5730367 - 06/09/06 11:36 AM (17 years, 7 months 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

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Re: Change [Re: mr_kite]
    #5730850 - 06/09/06 02:00 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I remember that quote. It always confused me if Shaw was depreciating societal progress, or if he thinks people should be unreasonable.

It would be nice to see where he said/wrote this, so as to put it into context.


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Re: Change [Re: David_Scape]
    #5730881 - 06/09/06 02:14 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"

Amazon comments: This play, as Shaw explains in the preface, is on the Don Juan theme. Taking all the ingredients of the legend, Shaw reordered them to write a four-act play in which he turned the story on its head so the Don Juan becomes "the quarry instead of the huntsman".

Never read it either but you can get it for only £0:05 on amazon  :biggrin: So I might just buy it.


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Re: Change [Re: David_Scape]
    #5730887 - 06/09/06 02:15 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

It's an interesting observation regardless.


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Re: Change [Re: mr_kite]
    #5731026 - 06/09/06 02:52 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Your talking about getting stonewalled


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Re: Change [Re: mr_kite]
    #5733312 - 06/10/06 05:31 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

"Change the Be. Be the Change."
-Qnohn Un


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Re: Change [Re: mr_kite]
    #5733340 - 06/10/06 06:31 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

reversal is an important method and consideraton in building anything.

meanings have to undergo reversal, sometimes more than once in order to stand on their own clearly.


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Re: Change [Re: mr_kite]
    #5733390 - 06/10/06 07:29 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Well, I guess, if you look at one way, it can mean both. The unreasonable man can't often be depended on for obvious reasons, and society's reliance on him might show a problem with society in general. But at the same time, I suspect that what he refers to as the 'unreasonalbe man' is supposed to represent people who see how things could change for the better, and stubbornly tries to change it... yeah, it is an interesting quote. Maybe I'll look him up on Wikipedia.


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Re: Change [Re: David_Scape]
    #5734451 - 06/10/06 02:14 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Always seek new ways, until they are all old, when things change, try again.

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