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I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.


Robert M. Gates

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ROBERT M. DRAKE She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved.
ROBERT M. DRAKE With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.
ROBERT M. DRAKE These are things you should notice anyway. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the si...
ROBERT M. PERSIG Persons tend to think and feel exclusively in one mode or the other and in doing so tend to misunder...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of e...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on “good” rather than �...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Quality is the Buddha.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you ...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not t...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Phædrus wrote a letter from India about a pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailas, the source of the Ganges...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the g...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle beca...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphem...
ROBERT M. PRICE The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

The more you look the more you see.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG But unlike Paul, his alternatives present him with a "double avoidance conflict"-neither is acceptab...
ROBERT M. PRICE The Warrenite Christian is like a Star Wars geek who dressed up in costume and dearly wishes he live...
ROBERT M. PRICE But if subjective pietism is not the real crux of this all-important Gospel, if it is instead belief...
ROBERT M. PRICE On any mechanical repair job ego comes in for rough treatment. You're always being fooled, you're al...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG I talked yesterday about caring, I care about these moldy old riding gloves. I smile at them flying ...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG The machine itself receives some of the same feelings. With over 27,000 on it it's getting to be som...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Not everyone understands what a completely rational process this is, this maintenance of a motorcycl...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that throug...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Actually I've never seen a cycle-maintenance problem complex enough really to require full-scale for...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG I will never be at ease while watching the sunset, knowing our stories will never end with the same ...
ROBERT M. DRAKE Kad jedna osoba pati od iluzije,
to se naziva poremećenošću uma. Kad mnogo ljudi pati od ilu...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG An inspired and infallible passage whose meaning you cannot be sure of is not much more useful than ...
ROBERT M. PRICE The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was ...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Look deeper through the telescope
and do not be afraid when the stars
collide towards the ...
ROBERT M. DRAKE True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.
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