The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
— Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.
— Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
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The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
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The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
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We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.
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