No one has the crystal ball; life is what you make of it
There is a general belief that people of higher authority predictions are much more accurate in predicting the future than lesser mortals. However, take a look at the following sayings or should I say predictions of people in higher mortals and those of lesser mortals.
Man will fly, but the craft will be the size of a matchbook and carry any insect for a passenger.
Simon Newcomb, a respected scientific authority December 1903
A man carrying airplane will eventually be built, but only if mathematicians and engineers work steadily for the next one to ten million years.
Heavier than air flying machines are impossible.
Lord Kelvin, President, The Royal Society of London. June 1885
The original Wright Flyer manufactured by Wright Brothers in 1903 hangs from the ceiling of Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. It is suspended in the main atrium; inspiring a feeling of majesty and ingenuity to a nation that is founded on all men are created equal.
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It is my belief that flight is possible.
Wilbur Wright, a bicycle repairman and builder (generally known as lesser mortals) May 1900
100 years later, after the birth of aviation in human history, the proudness of the American people is essentially captured in the words of former U.S. President George W. Bush.
“The Wright brothers’ invention belongs to the world, but the Wright brothers belong to America.”
How many times the word impossible is being told to you by others and mostly by yourself?
Traveling to sun and wanting to have sex with every year Miss Universe winners may be impossible but to generate some income from a part time business, to direct excess income towards acquisitions of income producing assets and lifted oneself out of rat race is not.
The fact is that no one has the crystal balls; life is what you made of it.
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