“Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.”

Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 39 (p. 370)

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American novelist, Short story writer 1935

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