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You can__ really think hard about what you__e doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn__ see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.
Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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You can__ really think hard about what you__e doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn__ see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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