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"Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive."
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"Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history."
"And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction."
"If you take it step by step, you shall least miss a step!"
"You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing."
"The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you."
"Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce."
"You have become more and therefore expect more, but never become too purpose-driven to step back and realize just how far you have progressed."
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"With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history."
"In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car."
"People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned."
"The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare."
"As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains."
"Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand."
"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."
"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."
"The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads."
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