“Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.”
Amelia Earhart
Last Flight (Primary source)
Earhart’s posthumous 1937 journal, compiled from dispatches during her final around-the-world attempt, becomes an inadvertent elegy for American optimism. Her matter-of-fact accounts of technical challenges and geographical wonders now read as her last transmission before vanishing into mystery and legend.
“It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.”
— Amelia Earhart Primary source“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 Primary source“Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”
— Amelia Earhart Primary source“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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“Understanding is a two-way street.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Disputed“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“There is no little enemy.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Every thing has two sides, a good and an evil. Every advantage has its tax.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source