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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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I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong. – Ogden Nash, "Come, Come, Kerouac! My Generation is Beater Than Yours," N

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Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport…. – Amy Johnson

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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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