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When trains were first invented, several “experts” agreed that if a train went at the frightful speed of fifteen miles an hour, the passengers would get nosebleeds and they would suffocate when going through tunnels. In 1881, the New York YMCA announced typing lessons for women. Protests were made on the grounds that the female constitution would break down under the strain. When the telephone was first invented, Joshua Coppersmith was arrested in Boston for trying to sell stock in a company which would build them. The experts said that all well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the human voice over a wire. Are you struggling with an impossible- looking task? Don’t give up because many people say it “can’t be done.” Almost every great idea or invention in history started out the same way. “Light Lines”, from Net Results, Net Results Resource Center, Lubbock, TX, February 1990
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