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.
“Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”
— Amelia Earhart“Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.”
— Amelia Earhart“It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.”
— Amelia Earhart“The stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have I seen so many. I always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but I was sure of it that night.”
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“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”
— Ernest Hemingway“Remember too that your time is your one finite resource, and when you say yes to one thing you are inevitably saying no to another.”
— Andrew S. Grove“To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.”
— Winston Churchill“It was a bitter moment. Defeat is one thing; disgrace is another.”
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