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In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
Essayist
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Naval Officer
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Butler
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Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
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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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When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak when it rains, I can’t fix it nohow.
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