Pragmatism

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These are a list of quotations regarding Pragmatism.

"Nature to be commanded must be obeyed" Francis Bacon
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- Also sometimes written as "Reality to be conquered must be obeyed".
If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad will go to the mountain.
"Good Poets Borrow. Great Poets Steal"
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- This statement has been applied to other fields of creative activity, including wikipedia:Philosophy and wikipedia:Software development.
- Corollaries:
  - "Good programmers write. Great Reuse"
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"The gods help them that help themselves" Aesop
- from "Hercules and the Wagoner"
"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."
- George Bernard Shaw
"When in Rome, do as the Romans do"
- Common proverb.
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"If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?" Hillel the Elder
- Hebrew original: אם אין אני לי, מי לי? וכשאני לעצמי, מה אני? ואם לא עכשיו, אימתי?
- Im ein ani li, mi li? U'kh'she'ani le'atzmi, mah ani? V'im lo 'akhshav, eimatai?
- Translation:
- Pirkei Avot 1:14