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Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.
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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Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.
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