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Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
Robert M. Pirsig
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Robert M. Pirsig
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 6
Died: 2017
Died: April 24
Autobiographer
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.
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A thing that has no value does not exist.
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