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The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.
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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If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!
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