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My Life Has Been Extremely Complicated. Not By Choice At The Beginning At All, But Later On, I Had Become Used To Complication And Went On Accepting Things That Other People Would Have Found Too Difficult To Accept.
-Benoit Mandelbrot
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My Life Has Been Extremely

Benoit Mandelbrot
My Life Has Been Extremely Complicated. Not By Choice At The Beginning At All, But Later On, I Had Become Used To Complication And Went On Accepting Things That Other People Would Have Found Too Difficult To Accept.
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