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Look deeper through the telescope
and do not be afraid when the stars
collide towards the darkness,
because sometimes the most beautiful
things begin in chaos.


Robert M. Drake

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ROBERT M. HENSEL Compassion is one of the greatest forms of human expression. Learn the art!
ROBERT M. HENSEL The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the g...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not ...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be ...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything ...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts�...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. -Robert M. Persig.
ROBERT M. PERSIG Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS The brain is heavily influenced by genes. But from birth through young adulthood, the part of the hu...
ROBERT M. SAPOLSKY During periods of root expansion things have always looked as confused and topsy-turvy and purposele...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Or winters when the sloughs were frozen over and dead and i could walk across the ice and snow betwe...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG I bet you've seen the fundamentalist bumper sticker that says, "God said it! I believe it! That sett...
ROBERT M. PRICE Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG I was particularly impressed by the varying degrees of weathering and erosion seen on the different ...
ROBERT M. SCHOCH My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in...
ROBERT M. PRICE As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken bef...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking y...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friend...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG I thought I loved you...now I realize, I only love that you left.
ROBERT M. SEBRING Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflect...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Every failure is just another step closer to a win. Never stop trying!
ROBERT M. HENSEL Go ahead and label me, cause labels are made for gifts.
ROBERT M. HENSEL A positive attitude, can turn a storm into a sprinkle.
ROBERT M. HENSEL The solutions all are simple / after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG 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 That Was Zen; This Is Tao
ROBERT M. PIRSIG I choose not to place "DIS", in my ability.
ROBERT M. HENSEL The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work out...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choo...
ROBERT M. SAPOLSKY It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for ...
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