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"I'm a farm boy. It's very interesting; you can detect self-starting characteristics in this society and they are strongest among people who have had some kind of rural upbringing and a very impressionable stage."
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Thanks to Winchell Chung (@nyrath) for pointing this out.
Here's another example from The Rull (1948):
The Rull flew out of a clump of trees mounted on an antigravity plate. The surprise of that was so great that it almost succeeded.
(Antigravity Plate from 'The Rull' by AE van Vogt)
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