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We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.

Robert M. Pirsig

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Robert M. Pirsig
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 6
Died: 2017
Died: April 24
Autobiographer
Novelist
Philosopher
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
Condemn
Acceptance
Fear
Others
Thought
Always

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