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Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.
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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Naval Officer
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Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
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If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.
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