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"The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older, though they are commonly supposed to become more conservative owing to their loss of faith in conventional methods of reform." --George Bernard Shaw

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Date: 2008-02-28 12:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chain saw with a magician (from livejournal.com)
Do you happen to know where he wrote that? A web search was somewhat contradictory about it. However, your journal is already hit #3 on google for "loss of faith in conventional methods of reform", less than an hour after you posted. :)

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Date: 2008-02-28 01:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] r-ness.livejournal.com
The passage appears in Shaw's 1903 "Man and Superman", as part of "The Revolutionist's Handbook" "published with the play as a 58-page appendix" and attributed to "John Tanner", revolutionist in the play.

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_and_Superman)

(Handbook can be read here: http://www.taxi1010.com/blackpool/john-tanner.htm)

Enjoy. :)

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Date: 2008-02-28 02:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] st-rev.livejournal.com
Shaw didn't get a whole lot right, though.

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Date: 2008-02-28 04:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] belfrynotes.livejournal.com
RIP William F. Buckley Jr.

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Date: 2008-02-28 11:38 pm (UTC)

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