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The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California. ↗

— John Moody

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The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property. ↗

— John Moody

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The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium. ↗

— John Moody

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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. ↗

— John Moody

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The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. ↗

— Rick Moody

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When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period. ↗

— John Moody

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While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points. ↗

— John Moody

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All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important. ↗

— Rick Moody

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I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way. ↗

— Rick Moody

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I love comic books and always did as a kid. ↗