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It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.
I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.
This computer-generated pangram contains six a's, one b, three c's, three d's, thirty-seven e's, six f's, three g's, nine h's, twelve i's, one j, one k, two l's, three m's, twenty-two n's, thirteen o's, three p's, one q, fourteen r's, twenty-nine s's, twenty-four t's, five u's, six v's, seven w's, four x's, five y's, and one z.
Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences!
Supperational thinkers, by recursive definition, include in their calculations the fact that they are in a group of superrational thinkers.

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