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

Amelia Earhart
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  1. Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

  2. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

  3. 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.

  4. Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.

  5. Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done–occasionally what men have not done–thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action.

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