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		jasomill 18 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into ... "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, Maxims for Revolutionists[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26107/pg26107-images.ht...
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chii 9 hours ago [–]

and people misuse this quote to justify unreasonable behaviour that does not progress the world.

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