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The body is sort of a pain. It has to go to the bathroom. It has to be comfortable. But the spirit is indestructible. It can move at the speed of light.
Robert Ballard
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Robert Ballard
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 30
Academic
Film Director
Geologist
Naval Officer
Non-Fiction Writer
Oceanographer
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Wichita
Kansas
Robert Duane Ballard
Robert D. Ballard
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