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We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

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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 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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The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. ↗

— 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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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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But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now. ↗

— Rick Moody

#going #i #important #incessant #irrelevant

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#brain #come #different #different kinds #different parts

I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#american #american women #brother #created #elder

I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma. ↗

— Leslie Moonves

#american #american audiences #any #audiences #chance