“If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.”

— Robert M. Pirsig, book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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American writer and philosopher 1928–2017

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