When A Person Attempts A Task, He Or She Will Be Thwarted In That Task By The Unconscious Intervention Of Some Other Presence (animate Or Inanimate).

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When a person attempts a task, he or she will be thwarted in
that task by the unconscious intervention of some other
presence (animate or inanimate). Nevertheless, some tasks
are completed, since the intervening presence is itself at-
tempting a task and is, of course, subject to interference.
-- Sodd's First Law

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