"Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive."

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"Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive."

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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."

Act, Congress, Conviction, Gold

"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."

People, Development, Wealth, Future

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

Business, Difficulties, First

"Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history."

History, Men, Leaders, Rank

"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."

Attention, Nation, Possibilities

"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."

Transportation, Difficulties, Now, Public, Solution

"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."

Discovery, Gold

"Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive."

Progress, Horses

"When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period."

History, First, States, United

"The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property."

History, Control, Financial, Connection

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"Progress does take time, it doesn't matter how slowly or fast you go, it will sure come."

Abdulazeez Henry Musa, Nigerian Author

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"The absence of knowledge of the truths about money leads to poverty and financial slavery."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"If the humanity does not poison the minds of the children with all sort of religious craps, the new generations of humanity will soon create a new world order where reason and logic will be the sole guide, the sole savior!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"And the people of Ankh-Morpork are so thirsty for novelty that the whole city is, you might say, hurrying the future along for the sheer joy of watching its progress."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbour of humanity's great aspirations."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"You are modern humans of the civilized world. And modern humans rise beyond all laws and superstitions of the society. They help their fellow beings to rise from the ashes of ignorance, illusion and fear."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Without constructive skepticism, without human progress."

Pearl Zhu, American Author

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"If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Progress, History, Change, Inheritance