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The time to worry is three months before a flight. Decide then whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. To worry is to add another hazard. It retards reactions, makes one unfit. . . . Hamlet would have been a bad aviator. He worried too much.

— Amelia Earhart

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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.

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

Last Flight (1937)

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

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.

Soaring Wings : A Biography of Amelia Earhart (1939)

Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.

Last Flight (1937)

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