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There are many reasons, some of them so deep-seated emotionally as to be very difficult of expression. Possibly the simplest explanation is that we started along this road … and I cannot stop until I have won.

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Jeannette Ridlon Piccard (5 January 1895 – 17 May 1981) was an American aeronaut, who pioneered balloon flight, a teacher, scientist and priest.

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