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A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope it's lessening the tension.

Jack Vance

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Jack Vance
Age: 96 †
Born: 1916
Born: August 28
Died: 2013
Died: May 26
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
San Francisco County
California
John Holbrook Vance
Jack Vance
John H. Vance
Definite
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Solution
Solutions
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Men
Lessening
Like
Rope
Strain

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