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If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.
Robert M. Pirsig
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Robert M. Pirsig
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 6
Died: 2017
Died: April 24
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Minneapolis
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Robert Maynard Pirsig
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Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.
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One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.
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The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
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An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution than a human body and the principle of human equality is an even higher form than a nation
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No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.
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When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
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