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There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses they take years of skull sweat.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
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