“Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don’t need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.”

—  Robert Charles Wilson , book Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 368

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