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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
| About:
Optimism,
Pessimism,
Society
| 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
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
God
| 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.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
gag, Gags, Open and, parachute, parachutes, parachuting, swimming
«Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
first century, jump, parachute, parachutes, parachute jump, parachuting, twentieth, twentieth century
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