"Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive."

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Source : John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

John Moody

#Horse Quotes #Car Quotes #Sailing Quotes

“I love to be challenged. I like to be in places where I don't have easy ways out; it's either I do it or I don't and, in my mind, I don't really have the option of don't.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say -- or their beliefs -- or sex.”
“The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.”

Source : Interview with Marc Grossman, www.cfr.org. April 14, 2010.
“Almighty Framer of the Skies!O let our pure devotion rise,Like Incense in thy Sight!Wrapt in impenetrable Shade,The Texture of our Souls were made,Till thy Command gave Light.”

Source : Thomas Chatterton, Charles Bonnycastle Willcox (1842). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton: Acknowledged poems. Chatterton's will. Miscellaneous prose works”, p.324
“Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in the direction of the West. If that doesn't work, we'll try the other way, see if we can veer to the East. It's no good to be in between. International politics does not appreciate ambiguity.”
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

Source : Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.
“I am skilled now, at casting iron To make a hardened bed for my heavy world”
“Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.”

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