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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
Knowledge
Evil
Power
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