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Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Amelia Earhart

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Amelia Earhart
Age: 39 †
Born: 1897
Born: July 24
Died: 1937
Died: July 2
Aircraft Pilot
Aviator
Journalist
Memoirist
Travel Writer
Writer
Atchison County
Missouri
Amelia Mary Earhart
Lady Lindy
Amelia Earhart Putnam
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Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.
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The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
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The most effective way to do it, is to just do it.
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