Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But peop…

Terry Pratchett
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Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.
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