“Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.”

— Ray Bradbury, book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

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American writer 1920–2012

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