"The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific."

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Source : John Moody (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

John Moody

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“Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to be happy increases your humanity. As you become less attached to the world, you become more humane. As the very purpose of spiritual practice is to help others, you must remain in society.”
“Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.”

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“Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.”

Source : "Cors de Chasse" (1912)
“Certainly, a gallery has to sell your work, so they'll be very frightened of you doing anything too different, and that can be difficult, but they can also recognize the need to change. Usually, if you just go and do it, and other people like it, it will still get recognized.”
“The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.”

Source : Dorothy Allison (2002). “Trash”, p.107, Penguin
“Surely as a man may say of a rock--nothing more quiet, because it is never stirred; and yet nothing more unquiet, because it is ever assaulted--so we may say of the church--nothing more peaceable, because it is established upon a rock; and yet nothing more unpeaceable, because that rock is in the midst of seas, winds, enemies, and persecutions.”

Source : Edward Reynolds (1837). “An Explication of the Hundred and Tenth Psalm: Wherein the Several Heads of Christian Religion Therein Contained, Touching the Exaltation of Christ, the Sceptre of His Kingdom, the Character of His Subjects, His Priesthood, Victories, Sufferings, and Resurrection, are Explained and Applied”, p.217
“America is not the center of the universe.”
“Does our Gospel presentation make men excited about what God can do for them on this earth, or about whom God is?”

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