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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

— Amelia Earhart Misattributed

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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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