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• The reason I'm disabled is because I have wounds and injuries that I got while on active duty ... from parachute jumping to combat to gunshot wounds, all that stuff.

  Richard Carmona

  Jumping, Stuff, Reason

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• I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Fun, Air, Watches

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• My habit of attacking Huns dangling from their parachutes led to many arguments in the mess. Some officers, of the Eton and Sandhurst type, thought it was 'unsportsmanlike' to do it. Never having been to a public school, I was unhampered by such considerations of form. I just pointed out that there was a bloody war on, and that I intended to avenge my pals.

  James Ira Thomas Jones

  War, School, Pals

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• Sometimes it is not wise to make a second plan; it diminishes the power of the first plan! In risky paths, make only one plan; this will increase the possibility of success! On the edge of a precipice, if your second plan is a parachute on your back, your possibility of falling will increase! When you have nothing to trust, you will be safer, because you have no right to make any mistake!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Success, Wise, Mistake

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• If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.

  Lauryn Hill

  War, Reading, Water

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• It was autumn, the springtime of death. Rain spattered the rotting leaves, and a wild wind wailed. Death was singing in the shower. Death was happy to be alive. The fetus bailed out without a parachute. It landed in the sideline Astroturf, so upsetting the cheerleaders that for the remained of the afternoon their rahs were more like squeaks.

  Tom Robbins

  Rain, Autumn, Wind

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• I'm almost there, almost to the barricade, when I thinks she hears me. Because for just a moment, she catches sight of me, her lips form my name. And that's when the rest of the parachutes go off.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Sight, Names

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.347, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's as if I'm Finnick, watching images of my life flash by. The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee's trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. Then its over.

  Suzanne Collins

  Rocks, Sky, Waves Breaking

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1375, Scholastic Inc.

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• As soon as I jumped out of the airplane, I realized I had forgotten my parachute. Thank God we were still on the runway.

  Demetri Martin

  Airplane, Thank God, Forgotten

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• We're all gonna land, we don't have rocket packs that last forever. But these things that we love, these things that give us purpose, these moments along the way are our parachutes. So I feel very fortunate to have all of these. Art and my family are pretty much my biggest parachutes.

  Frank Iero

  Art, Land, Giving

  Source: indientry.com

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• I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing.

  Warren Buffett

  Mean, Mad, Guy

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• My mockingjay pin now lives with Cinna's outfit, but there's the gold locket and the silver parachute with the spile and Peeta's pearl. I knot the pearl into the corner of the parachute, bury it deep in the recesses of the bag, as if it's Peeta's life and no one can take it away as long as I guard it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Long, Gold, Bags

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.146, Scholastic Inc.

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• There is just no way that I can understand in God's green earth that an airline could undertake with its normal procedures the operation of the Space Shuttle. . . . You don't put parachutes on airliners because the margin of safety is built into the machine. The 727 airplanes we fly are proven vehicles with levels of safety and redundancy built in. The shuttle is a hand-made piece of experimental gear.

  Frank Borman

  Airplane, Moon, Space

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• Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspiration, Airplane, Jumping

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• In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.

  Mark Burnett

  War, Airplane, Two

  "Mark Burnett Started His Career Jumping Out Of Airplanes And Transporting Prisoners On Ships" by Stephen Chao, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2011.

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• Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.

  L.E. Modesitt Jr.

  Optimistic, Mind, Fists

  L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (2010). “The Parafaith War”, p.168, Macmillan

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• Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus - all these jumpers without parachutes from a world of gods and heroes.

  Cees Nooteboom

  Hero, Men, Thinking

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• If you want to be successful, you have to jump, there's no way around it. When you jump, I can assure you that your parachute will not open right away. But if you do not jump, your parachute will never open. If you're safe, you'll never soar!

  Steve Harvey

  Successful, Safe, Want

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• All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Complaining, Dictator, Pregnant Women

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• O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's knifeProvides the answer ultimate and appropriate?As I for my part felt in my heart as one who falls,Falls in a parachute, falls endlessly, and feels the vastDraft of the abyss sucking him down and down,An endlessly helplessly falling and appalled clown:This is the way the night passes by, thisIs the overnight endless trip to the famous unfathomable abyss.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Lonely, Fall, Heart

  Delmore Schwartz, “All Night, All Night”

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• I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.

  Sebastian Junger

  Real, Thinking, Bridges

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• Falling in love was a solo act. I knew that, had learned that the hard way. You just jumped and hoped your parachute opened. Sometimes you looked up and saw you were falling by yourself, the object of your desire still on the plane, not interested in jumping, watching you descend into that scary place alone.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Falling In Love, Jumping, Scary

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• The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton Head or some such (place), having secured their bonuses and golden-parachute buyouts.

  David Simon

  Golf, Bonus, Golden

  Interview with David Doody, www.utne.com. September 2011.

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• My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Fall, Mouths

  Tahereh Mafi (2014). “Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me”, p.56, Harper Collins

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• But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before?

  Eugene Levy

  Night, Thinking, Sea

  "Eugene Levy: 'American Pie got kinda graphic'" by atherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2012.

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