“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”
The Left Hand of Darkness ch. 3 (1969)
Excerpted from: Shapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
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