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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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Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person. ↗

— Demi Moore

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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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