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Arthur C. Clarke Quotes: Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.
         

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.


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