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Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing.

Larry Niven

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Larry Niven
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: April 30
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Laurence van Cott Niven
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