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Quote by Mary Kay Ash
“Aerodynamics have proven that the bumblebee cannot fly,” she says. “The body is too heavy and the wings are too weak, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that, and it goes right on flying, miraculously.”
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The speaker describes the bumblebee as seeming unable to fly because its body is too heavy and its wings too weak. Yet it keeps flying because it does not know those supposed limits. “Miraculously” presents this contrast as a striking image of action continuing despite an apparent impossibility.
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