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You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

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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No borders, just horizons - only freedom.
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No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another.
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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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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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The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.
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the stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have i seen so many. i always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but i was sure of it that night.
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Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.
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I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.
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If enough of us keep trying, we'll get someplace.
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As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.
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Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.
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You can do anything you decide to do.
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Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
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Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.
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Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.
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The more one does the more one can do.
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So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.
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Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.
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