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A philosophy of mere adjustment fails even to achieve adjustment
Drawn from what Randolph Bourne said
What Randolph Bourne actually said
- Randolph Bourne American essayist (1886 to 1918)
A philosophy of adjustment will not even make for adjustment. If you try merely to “meet” situations as they come, you will not even meet them.
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↗Untimely Papers (essays of 1917-1918, published 1919)gutenberg.org
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