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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.

Amelia Earhart

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Amelia Earhart
Age: 39 †
Born: 1897
Born: July 24
Died: 1937
Died: July 2
Aircraft Pilot
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Atchison County
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Amelia Mary Earhart
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When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it.
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No borders, just horizons - only freedom.
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Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.
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Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
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Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.
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Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
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The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
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No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another.
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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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