#sip

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

#absolute necessity #act #after #became #congress

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

#east #even #extensions #lay #managed

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#east #east side #into #land #large

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#cause #cease #faithful #insipid #only

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank. ↗

— George Osborne

#bank #central #central bank #debt #dissipated

I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips. ↗

— Amos Oz

#falls #gets #gossips #i #israelis

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told. ↗

— Bennie Thompson

#biggest #ever #go #lie #mississippi

Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence. ↗

— Mariano Rajoy

#affirm #any #consequence #dissipate #doubts

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #equality #fear

Gossip is easy, politics is hard. ↗

— Tabitha Soren

#gossip #hard #politics