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All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did as a child. I don't know why I hate it so much I just do.

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Raymond Smullyan
Age: 97 †
Born: 1919
Born: May 25
Died: 2017
Died: February 6
Chess Composer
Computer Scientist
Magician
Mathematician
Philosopher
Pianist
University Teacher
Far Rockaway
New York
Raymond Merrill Smullyan
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