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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.

Amelia Earhart

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Amelia Earhart
Age: 39 †
Born: 1897
Born: July 24
Died: 1937
Died: July 2
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Atchison County
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Amelia Mary Earhart
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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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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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Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.
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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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The most difficult thing is the decision to act!
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The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.
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The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
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Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is . . . the inevitable.
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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 most effective way to do it, is to just do it.
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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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Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.
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No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
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You can do anything you decide to do.
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Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.
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Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.
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I did for the fun of it
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Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.
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The more one does the more one can do.
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I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty.
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