Pragmatism

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"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
"In Rome, act like a Roman".
- Common proverb.