The reasonable man

The reasonable man
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
  

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Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.
A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.
Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.
Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.
Patience is the art of hoping.
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Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.
The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.