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Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.
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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There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses they take years of skull sweat.
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