“I've never fell off a big chimney. You'd only fall off one of them once.”
Fred Dibnah (1938–2004) English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen interest in mechanical engineering
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“Life never falls, but never gets out of falling. It is poised in a persistent state of almost-fell.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
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