She means that there were various different aspects that don't usually belong together and don't really fit, but they fit together in the end and managed to build a society that works, like a quilt that consists of many various patches that are disjunctive, but together they build a great quilt.
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Though the first actual helicopter wasn’t built until the 1940s, it is believed that Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches from the late fifteenth century were the predecessor to the modern day flying machine. As with many of da Vinci’s ideas, he never actually built and tested it – but his notes and drawings mapped out exactly how the device would operate.
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