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A horse is urged to pull a wagon the horse refuses to try, citing Newton's third laws as a defense: the pull of the horse on the wagon is equal to but opposite the pull of the wagon on the horse. "If I can never exert a greater force on the wagon than it exerts on me, how can I ever start the wagon moving ?" Asks the horse. How would you reply ?

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