"Unfortunately most accidents are preventable. Planes don't fall out of the sky unless something is wrong."

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Source : "FAA inspector: White House didn't force her out". www.cnn.com. July 9, 1996.

Mary Schiavo

#Fall Quotes #Sky Quotes #Planes Quotes

“I remember draft night, I shook David Stern's hand while rocking a red suit with white pinstripes and red gators I've always been a trendsetter.”
“Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable it has original sin, and needs improvement. It can smell foul in the pot, linger through the house with pertinacity, and ruin a meal with its wet flab. Cabbage also has a nasty history of being good for you.”

Source : Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press
“Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.”

Source : "Under age gun: when less time can mean better problem-solving" by Adam Savage, www.wired.com. February 11, 2013.
“But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the constellations we couldn't see, let alone decipher, or in the dark glow that replaced the real darkness of night, a darkness already stolen from us, not with the skyline rising behind us while a city gradually decayed, not in the heat of summer while a Cold War raged, despite the freedom of youth and the license of first love-because of fate, karma, luck, what does it matter?-we made not doing it a wonder, and yet we didn't, we didn't, we never did.”

Source : Stuart Dybek (2004). “I Sailed with Magellan”, p.244, Macmillan
“Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black jeans and leather, who wanted to chase her down and have his evil way with her.”
“I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.”
“If you can’t be good, be colorful.”
“Scientific and technological "solutions" which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction.”

Source : E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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