Action Quotes

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It is hard to understand how a compassionate world order can include so many people afflicted by acute misery, persistent hunger and deprived and desp...more

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The more one does and sees and feels the more one is able to do and the more genuine may be one's own appreciation of fundamental things like home ...more

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An epistemic methodology that sees the pursuit of knowledge as entirely congruent with the search for power is a great deal more cunning than wise. It...more

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While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.

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Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our ri...more

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If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements ...more

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To understand the world is never a matter of simply recording our immediate perceptions. Understanding inescapably involves reasoning.We have to 'read...more

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Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought...more

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

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Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full adv...more

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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 ca...more

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I want to do it because I want to do it.

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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 other...more

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One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has come down through the g...more

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

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There are two kinds of stones as everyone knows one which rolls.

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Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons,...more

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

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I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

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Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when I first considered going. Once faced and s...more

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Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With ...more

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In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

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The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune.

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Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

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Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a ...more

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Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

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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 ...more

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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

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Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn't. Without my husband's help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I hav...more