Quoted in Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, and Brilliant Remarks By Karen Weekes, p. 41
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
— Gladys Bronwyn Stern
What It Means
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