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• To go outside the mythos is to become insane.... -- Robert M. Pirsig
• Trials never end, of course. Unhappiness and misfortune are bound to occur as long as people live
  but there is a feeling now, that was not here before, and is not just on the surface of things, but penetrates all the way through...
• What follows is based on actual occurences.Although much has been changed for rhetorical purposes,it must be regarded in its essence as fact.
  However,it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice....
• There is but one inerrant inevitable formula for success on a computer.
  This involves the combination of a computer with a human being, and it is bound to be even more effective if that human being is self-conceived as a computer programmer....
• Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
  -- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...
• How to paint a perfect painting -- make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally -- Robert M.
  Pirsig...
• The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
  -- Robert M. Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...
• Self-respect . . . is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has its price.
• Any government has in the final analysis to be justified by the quality of life which it promotes.
  -- Ralph Barton Perry...