down the avenue: Praise The Unreasonable

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November 27, 2004

Praise The Unreasonable

Can this possibly apply to real estate in San Francisco? Doesn't being unreasonable always pay off?

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. -- G.B.S.

November 27, 2004 in On People & Life, On Poems, Literature & Stuff, Reflections | Permalink

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