Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I …

Ray Bradbury
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Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two. ✨ Ray Bradbury (1951). Fahrenheit 451: A Novel, Simon and Schuster
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