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Unreasonable Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts…
- All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.
- 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…
- Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
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- All progress depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw
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