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To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
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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If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.
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Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.
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