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You’re not crazy
" Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people try to change it. All progress is therefore dependent upon the existence of unreasonable people." #BernardShaw
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01/04/youre-not-crazy/ -
Who said what? Not #BernardShaw but #BertrandRussel?
> The sign of a truly educated person is to be deeply moved by statistics.
> It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/02/20/moved-by-stats/
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/70302/70302-h/70302-h.htm
> The next stage in the development of a desirable form of sensitiveness is sympathy..go so far as to enable a man to be moved emotionally by #statistics.. #AbstractSympathy is as rare as it is important.
日本語も!
https://russell-j.com/beginner/OE02-170.HTM
#BRussel -
> Orwell took Shaw’s remark to heart and examined carefully his own reasons for believing the world to be round... Shaw was right: that most of his scientific beliefs rested solely on the authority of scientists. In other words, most students have no idea why Copernicus is to be preferred over Ptolemy...
#NeilPostman in #BridgeToEighteenthCentury
#OrwellAndShaw #GeorgeOrwell #BernardShaw -
The play The Arms and The Man by Bernard Shaw was a fantastic show tonight at Washington Stage Guild in D.C.
The cast was fantastic, nailed the comedy and punchlines. Laughed my ass off.
If you're in the DMV area, check it out while it's still showing. Dropping a link
#Play #TheArmsAndTheMan #BernardShaw #WashingtonDC #WashingtonStageGuild
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"Never Wrestle with a Pig. You Both Get Dirty and the Pig Likes It". GBShaw
Happy to be on this platform...watch out for pigs.
#mastadon #firsttoot #BernardShaw #pigs #introduction #newhere #newbie
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“We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright
