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.
IDA TARBELLTo denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
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There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
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Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap.
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The quest of the truth had been born in me – the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man’s quests.
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We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment’s rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.
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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.
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As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
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It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women – contributes to their health, happiness, development – is good for business.
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Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.
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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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