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Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?
Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?
Approximate author period: c. 1972 AD · modern
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- Robert M. Pirsig
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- Approximate author period: c. 1972 AD · modern
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