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A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.
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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Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.
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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.
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We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.
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