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Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed. ↗

— John Moody

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I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. ↗

— Rick Moody

#back #boston #century #england #fact

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order. ↗

— Rick Moody

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What genre it falls under is only of interest later. ↗

— Rick Moody

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For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it. ↗

— Ron Moody

#artists #believes #belly #fix #getting

Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle. ↗

— Ron Moody

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I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer. ↗

— Robert Moog

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Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics. ↗

— Robert Moog

#beat #built #each #electronics #i

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

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I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

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