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Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution. ↗

— John Moody

#difficulties #even #even now #far #farmers

Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business. ↗

— John Moody

#business #consequently #difficulties #fair #falling

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like. ↗

— Rick Moody

#i #like #material #nonfiction #really

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#appraise #blunder #cannot #chiefly #even

A brick could be used in speech therapy, to cure a stutter. I mean look at me, I don't have a stutter. But to be fair, I never did have a stutter, so I can't be certain the presence of a brick had any positive effect at all.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

Back in the '40s and early '50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work. ↗

— Robert Moog

#back #build #building #buy #could

You don't understand. You've never hated anybody. No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner. ↗

— Truman Capote

#inspirational

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments. ↗

— Robert Moog

#by the time #electronic #experience #got #had

My transition from scientist to entrepreneur? Some would say that I still haven't made that transition. ↗

— Robert Moog

#haven #i #made #say #scientist

It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#focus #hard #hold #long #single