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The lure of flying is the lure of 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
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Lure
Aviation
Flight
Flying
Beauty

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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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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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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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The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
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I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty.
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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
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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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To worry is to add another hazard.
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It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.
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The field was wet, the lane was wet, and the spirits of my mechanic and helper were damp.
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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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How can Life grant us boon of living, compensateFor dull grey ugliness and pregnant hateUnless we dareThe soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we payWith courage to behold the resistless day,And count it fair.
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