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Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?
— Robert M. Pirsig
Tags: group, chemistry, struggle, simple

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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
Tags: science, art
We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Tags: keep, through, moments, people
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Tags: find, only, mountains, you
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Tags: up, find, only, mountains, you
We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Tags: return, need, independence, integrity
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