[Ads-l] failure is not an option
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jan 24 21:14:17 UTC 2021
Conventional wiz credits this to the movie _Apollo 13_ (1995).
Cf.:
1983 _Trenton Times_ (Apr. 11) 11 : We worked on the premise that all this
could be done. Failure was never an option.
What's surprising is that nothing earlier has appeared. I certainly never
heard "Failure is not an option" till after the movie was released,
JL
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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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