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The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Le roi est mort, vive le roi! Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work.


Leo Tolstoy


#banks #earnings #labor #leo-tolstoy #monopolies

The murder of my husband by the railways has altered the way I think about everything. I had always thought that the majority of people were decent and honourable. In the wake of the crash, what made me angry more than anything else was the realisation that this was not true. I still find it very hard to come to terms with.


Nina Bawden


#altered #always #angry #anything #come

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.


John Betjeman


#benefactors #front #gardens #houses #interesting

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government.


John Moody


#before #civil #civil war #decade #federal

If was, increased by a lack of railways in Russia - for bringing up supplies to our advancing troops.


Gerd von Rundstedt


#bringing #increased #lack #our #railways

Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.


William Clark


#ambitious #great-railway-bazaar #men #men

Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of the most exciting infrastructure in Britain. Crossrail is the new railway which will run from West to East right across London. It is the biggest engineering project in Europe - and Phyllis herself is not exactly dainty.


Evan Davis


#biggest #boring #britain #characters #dainty

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.


James Buchan


#bits #bulls #crash #dust #dutch

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.


James J. Hill


#great #had #lived #men #mine

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.


Mikhail Kalashnikov


#developed #engine #ever #had #i






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