“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.”
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Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
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“The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
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Variant translation: The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook J (1789)
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Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe