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How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?
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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Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.
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