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If enough of us keep trying, we'll get someplace.

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
Trying
Someplace
Keep
Enough

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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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Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.
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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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When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it.
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I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.
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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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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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As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.
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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
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Everyone has ocean's to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
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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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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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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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Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.
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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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The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.
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Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
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