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Letter "P" » parachute
«Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.»
Author: G. B. Stern
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About:
Optimism,
Pessimism,
Society
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Keywords:
Airplanes,
contribute,
invents,
optimist,
optimists,
parachute,
parachutes,
parachuting,
pessimist,
Pessimists
«Believing that a girl will wait is just like jumping with a parachute packed by someone else.»
«We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Novelist,
Scholar)
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About:
God
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Keywords:
airman,
emergencies,
hopes,
in regard to,
parachute,
parachutes,
parachuting,
regard,
regards,
regard as,
The Emergency,
use
«If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.»
«Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.»