Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.A. R. Ammons
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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