Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
IDA TARBELLThe surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
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I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.
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a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power this story never would have been written.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful.
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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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