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Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.

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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Journalist
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Travel Writer
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Atchison County
Missouri
Amelia Mary Earhart
Lady Lindy
Amelia Earhart Putnam
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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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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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The most effective way to do it, is to just do it.
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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 greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
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Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action.
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Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.
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Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life the process is its own reward. Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And if they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
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The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay With courage to behold the restless day, And count it fair.
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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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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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I did for the fun of it
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I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty.
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Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
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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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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 woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
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