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I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha--which is to demean oneself.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Robert M Pursig |

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Jules Feiffer |

You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Marsha Sinetar |

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Renata Adler |