Re: Noted in the newspaper

don groves wrote:

"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

I've seen that quotation mangled in so many different ways
that I will cite the exact book or play when I find it, someday.
THE MAN SPOKE ENGLISH! WHY DO PEOPLE %$*& IT UP?
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