Anti-conventional wisdom for the day.

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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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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)

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