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When you know the answer you want, it is often all too easy to figure out a way of getting it.

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Brian Greene
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 9
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Brian Randolph Greene
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Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
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