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For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.


Robert M. Pirsig

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ROBERT M. HENSEL Let your courage and determination be the vehicle that drives you, and takes you anywhere in this li...
ROBERT M. HENSEL I'm chasing my dreams straight to the top, into a sky that has no limits.
ROBERT M. HENSEL Face life head on...It's a collision you can't ignore.
ROBERT M. HENSEL Hope can light the darkness, when hearts become dismayed
ROBERT M. HENSEL “To find equality for mankind, we must first remove the barriers that have divided us for so long
ROBERT M. HENSEL Never take more out of life, than you intend to give back.
ROBERT M. HENSEL It only takes but one seed of peace, to create a forrest.
ROBERT M. HENSEL It only takes but a second to show ignorance, but an entire lifetime to present wisdom.
ROBERT M. HENSEL I choose not to place "DIS", in my ability.
ROBERT M. HENSEL I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choo...
ROBERT M. SAPOLSKY "ACCESSIBILITY FOR ALL" - In the words of Ronald Reagan, "Tear down this wall".
ROBERT M. HENSEL To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to c...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagre...
ROBERT M. GATES Why should people in one part of the globe have developed collectivist cultures, while others went i...
ROBERT M. SAPOLSKY At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the bre...
ROBERT M. DRAKE One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.&...
ROBERT M. GATES To love is to soar in the wild unexpectedly.
ROBERT M. DRAKE We’re only instruments of love, flowing through heaps of pain hoping one day we’d hatch a passio...
ROBERT M. DRAKE The greatest adventure is to have no fear for the blaze that lies ahead.
ROBERT M. DRAKE Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you.
ROBERT M. DRAKE Broken hearts, you can run, you can hide and perhaps the earth is big enough to believe you’re saf...
ROBERT M. DRAKE I kept loving and loving and loving. Every waking hour, I marveled on how these moments would make m...
ROBERT M. DRAKE Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.
ROBERT M. DRAKE Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.
ROBERT M. DRAKE How could I live above the water or breathe under it. How could I swim in darkness consumed in an oc...
ROBERT M. DRAKE I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let ...
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 Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphem...
ROBERT M. PRICE 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 I will never be at ease while watching the sunset, knowing our stories will never end with the same ...
ROBERT M. DRAKE An inspired and infallible passage whose meaning you cannot be sure of is not much more useful than ...
ROBERT M. PRICE Look deeper through the telescope
and do not be afraid when the stars
collide towards the ...
ROBERT M. DRAKE Although the French appellation system has its roots in the 1923 system created in Chateauneuf-du-Pa...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. I like white wine when it's young and vigorous. I don't think you should cellar white wine a...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.