Maria Lopez från Rio de Janeiro gjorde ett fallskärmshopp som var tänkt att avslutas i en Brasilianskt nudistläger. Naturligtvis hade hon klätt sig i, för förhållandena lämplig utstyrsel, dvs fallskärm och inte en tråd mer.
Vädrets makter hade tydligen för avsikt att spela Maria ett spratt, för vindarna förde henne bort från lägret och rakt mot El Loko fängelset där hon slutligen landade på rastgården mitt bland 200 livstidsdömda våldsbrottslingar.
Det blev väldigt oroligt bland fångarna under några ögonblick, var fängelseledningens kommentar efter incidenten.
Man kan nästan misstänka att det uttalandet var en stark underdrift...
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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world’s great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage.
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Skiing consists of wearing 3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.
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There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded. I think its one of the tendencies of the liberal community to feel that every person in a nation of over 200 million people can be made into a productive citizen. Im realist enough to believe this cant be. Were always going to have our prisons, were always going to have our places of preventive detention for psychopaths, and were always going to have a certain number of people in our community who have no desire to achieve or who have no desire to even fit in an amicable way with the rest of society. And these people should be separated from the community, not in a callous way but they should be separated as far as any idea that their opinions shall have any effect on the course we follow.
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'If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do?'
'Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter oneself over a wide area.'
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Before water generates steam, it must register 212 of heat; 200 will not do it. The water must boil to generate enough steam to move an engine. Lukewarm water will not run anything. Lukewarmness will not generate life's work.
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You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.
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How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses
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I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line
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I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.
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The master plan was laid out months ago. Jack Kemp would give 200 rubber-chicken dinners (sometimes it's meatballs or just cocktails) between ...
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Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
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[One friend, 15 at the time, was 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighed 200 pounds and was] explosive, ... had a thing for her.
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