“Is not all this an extraordinary concatenation of coincidence?”

—  Isaac Asimov , book Foundation’s Edge

Pelorat said, “If you list it like that—”
“List it any way you please,” said Trevize. “I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.”
Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 14 “Forward!” section 1, p. 281

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