Quote by Gil Stern
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 bluebird carries the sky on his back. – Henry David Thoreau

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When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. – Leonardo Da Vinci (Thanks, Tommy)

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

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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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