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Objects are inorganic and biological values subjects are social and intellectual values.

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
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Objects
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Social
Inorganic
Biological
Intellectual

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