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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.

— Amelia Earhart

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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)

In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble.

Last Flight (1937)

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