Within a book on a desk there are billions of forces pushing and pulling on all the molecules. Why is it that these forces never by chance add up to a net force in one direction, causing the book to accelerate "spontaneously" across the desk?

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Think about Newton's third law. All of the internal forces consist of equal and pooosite pairs, and the vector sum is zero.
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