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I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty.

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
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Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.
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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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The most effective way to do it, is to just do it.
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