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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. — Robert M. Pirsig · 1974
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. — Robert M. Pirsig · 1974
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. — Robert M. Pirsig · 1974
You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. — Robert M. Pirsig · 1974
You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. — Robert M. Pirsig · 1974
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The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. — Robert M. Pirsig · 1974
You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. — Robert M. Pirsig · 1974
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The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. — Robert M. Pirsig · 1974
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. — Robert M. Pirsig · 1974
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. — Robert M. Pirsig · 1974
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The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. — Robert M. Pirsig · 1974