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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.

Anne McCaffrey

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Anne McCaffrey
Age: 85 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 1
Died: 2011
Died: November 21
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Anne Inez McCaffrey
Real
Solves
Engineering
Scientist
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Mathematics
Problems
Science
Unsolvable
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Wails

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