In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
IDA TARBELLIt is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions.
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The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
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The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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[On dishonest business methods:] … frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other’s weaknesses!.
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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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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 more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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The 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.
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