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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optim

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. – Gil Stern

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The desire to reach for the sky runs deep in our human psyche. – Cesar Pelli

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Flying

How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground – seconds away – thousands of miles away. – Charles A. Lindbergh

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Flying

I always thought that my airplane conveyed a silent sermon. To the earthbound observer, its silhouette was the shape of the cross on which Jesus was crucified. – E.R. Trimble

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Flying

Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite. – Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra

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Flying

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