"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

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Source : Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

George Bernard Shaw

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“No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way.”
“Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.”
“If you descend into somebody else's private hell and stand there with them, it ceases to be hell.”
“Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.”

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“Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.”

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“I volunteered 35 years ago to go to Vietnam and the guy I was running against got out of going to Vietnam with a trick knee! I was an author of the homeland security bill, for goodness' sake! But I wasn't a rubber stamp for the White House. That right there is the epitome of what's wrong with American politics today!”
“Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has made this world, I should not wish to be that God. The world's wretchedness would rend my heart.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain”, p.68, Booklassic
“If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.”

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