"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute."
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Quoted in Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, and Brilliant Remarks By Karen Weekes, p. 41
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Gladys Bronwyn Stern
(or GB Stern) (17 June 1890 – 20 September 1973), born Gladys Bertha Stern in London, England, wrote many novels (one of which was turned into a film), short stories, plays, memoirs, biographies and literary criticism.
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