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 > "Things just happen. What the hell. And the reason things just happen is that a hundred billion other things just happened, all working unheeded and unseen, to make sure that they do."
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-> –- **Terry Pratchett, "Last Continent"**, reflecting on the elegant machinery of complex systems
+> — **Terry Pratchett, "Last Continent"**, reflecting on the elegant machinery of complex systems
 
 ## Overview