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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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If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.
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What's new? is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow.
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If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.
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There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
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Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease.
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(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.
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