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The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Topic

Living inauthentically

Author

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Source

Gift from the Sea

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow. Gift from the Sea. Pantheon Books, 1955, ch. 2.

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived and loved and where all your yesterdays are buried deep-leave it any way except a slow way; leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

Beryl Markham

West with the Night

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Topic

Letting go of the past

Author

Beryl Markham

Source

West with the Night

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Markham, Beryl. West with the Night. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942, ch. 11.

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace,
The soul that knows it not, knows no release
From little things.

Amelia Earhart

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Topic

Courage

Author

Amelia Earhart

Source

Courage

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Earhart, Amelia. Quoted in "Courage." Who is Amelia Earhart?, written by Marion Perkins. Survey Graphic, 1 July 1928.

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in a bed.

Charles Lindbergh

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Topic

Taking risks Risk Courage Adventure

Author

Charles Lindbergh

Source

Journals of Charles Lindburgh

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lindbergh, Charles. Journal entry. 26 Aug. 1938.

I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart

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Topic

Flying Taking risks

Author

Amelia Earhart

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Earhart, Amelia. Letter to George Putnam. 2 July 1937.

Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one mile wind. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest 57 seconds. Inform press. Home Christmas.

Orville Wright

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Topic

Flying Moments of discovery

Author

Orville Wright

Medium

Telegram

Language

English

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wright, Orville. Telegram to Reverend Milton Wright. 17 Dec. 1903.

Current Citation

Wright, Orville. Quoted in To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers, written by Wendie C. Old. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright

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Topic

Credulity Doubt and skepticism

Author

Orville Wright

Source

Letters of Orville Wright

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wright, Orville. "Orville Wright to George A. Spratt, Dayton, Ohio, June 7, 1908." Miracle at Kitty Hawk: The Letters of Wilbur and Orville Wright, edited by Fred. C. Kelly. Da Capo Press, 2002. Originally a letter to George A. Spratt. 7 June 1908.