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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 unreasonable man. "
How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics - Page 4
by Zbigniew Michalewicz, David B. Fogel - 2004 - 554 pages
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AEC Authorizing Legislation, Fiscal Year 1974: Hearings, Ninety-third ...

United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy - 1973 - 1739 pages
...According to George Bernard Shaw, "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world ; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself....Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Much of the coronary heart disease in the United States derives from our desire to eat too much, smoke...
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AEC Authorizing Legislation: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on ..., Part 4

United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy - 1973 - 1860 pages
...According to George Bernard Shaw, "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world ; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself....Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Much of the coronary heart disease in the United States derives from our desire to eat too much, smoke...
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The Use and Abuse of Art

Jacques Barzun - Art - 1975 - 168 pages
...same tastes." Or again, "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." In his comedies, Shaw depicted the soldier as preferring chocolate to ammunition, the womanly woman...
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Praxis: Yugoslav Essays in the Philosophy and Methodology of the ..., Volume 36

Mihailo Marković, Gajo Petrović - Philosophy - 1979 - 458 pages
...either he adjusts himself to that environment, or, he adjusts the environment to himself and his needs. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the...Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (Bernard Shaw) People who spend their entire lives in one particular society cannot imagine themselves...
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Geography at University: Making the Most of Your Geography Degree and Courses

Gordon Clark, Terry Wareham - Science - 2003 - 230 pages
...also a small Australian wallaby. 2.4 APPLYING KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND THE ABILITYTO-LEARN TO NEW TOPICS The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists m trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George...
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Living In Grace: The Shift To Spiritual Perception

Beca Lewis - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2002 - 212 pages
...words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page. — Joan Baez What will people think? 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. — George Bernard...
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A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture

James McGovern - Business & Economics - 2004 - 338 pages
...to any delivery circumstance A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture Enterprise Unified Process The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the...depends on the unreasonable man George Bernard Shaw II856-I950I, Man and Superman I I903I The Rational Unified Process lKruchten 2000l is swiftly becoming...
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Great Sayings and Quotations

118 pages
...without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies. - AN Whitehead The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the...depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules. - Brooke 'Passion is a sort of fever in the mind which...
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Entrepreneurial Genius: The Power of Passion

Gene N. Landrum - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 404 pages
...virtually all the great achievers-are the focus of this book. As Shaw observed in Man and Superman (1903): The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the...Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. In the chapters that follow, we shall visit the lives and the personality traits of some of these "unreasonable"...
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Visions of Canada: The Alan B. Plaunt Memorial Lectures, 1958-1992

Carleton University - History - 2004 - 596 pages
...place of the reformer in the scheme of things when he compared reasonable and unreasonable people. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the...Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man," Shaw concluded. 3 In borrowing Michel Crozier's phrase, I do not, of course, wish to suggest that the...
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