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Chinese takeout one night came with a handful of fortune cookies. This is what mine contained (sans the keyboard).
After reading it to my wife, she quipped, "That still doesn't mean you can climb to the top of a mountain, jump off its peak and expect to fly. Plummet, yes. Fly, no." (We had a good laugh.)
Translated: You still need to know your limits, even while pushing them; otherwise, you may push yourself beyond the point of no return.
Since this fortune didn't come with an attribution (truth be told, I've only seen one that has, and it was a quote from Confucius (I kid you not)), I searched for the text (i.e., Googled it) and found that it's attributed to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a deceased French philosopher and Jesuit priest.
Who would have thought that one fortune cookie and Google could lead to so much?
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