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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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In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
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My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow's planes.
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Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.
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Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.
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Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it.
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In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful break was apt to lurk just around the corner.
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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
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The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.
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Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
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I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty.
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Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.
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One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs, which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.
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Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.
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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
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No borders, just horizons - only freedom.
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You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.
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To worry is to add another hazard.
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The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
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There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
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Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.
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