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...a book need never die and should not be killed books were the immortal part of man.
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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Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
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Caleb Saunders
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If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.
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Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw
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