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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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Become Business Canoonise Hero Like Made Men National Oil Standard Success Trust
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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Competitor Country Dice Doubtful Fair Loaded People Peron Play Race Start Systematically
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
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Abonded Against Belong Circle Knew replace Respectable Security Value Whole Force Won
The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd.
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Absurd Bread Important Make Man More Raise Theory Woman Work
Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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Always Bank Business Buy Cheap Control Enough High Manage Money Rule Sell Stock Temporary
When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is ‘unprofessional,.
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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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Achieve Business Class Consequence Larger Method Practically Sanctified
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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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Character Expense Living Our Raise Standard
Life is but a collection of habits.
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Collection Habit Life One Liner
The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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Glad Have Marry One Only Reason Will Woman
No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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Destroy Only Original Owner Value
An excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another’s shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another’s pockets.
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Another Business Carry Conclusion Excuse Frailty Human Leave Legitimate Men One Pick Pocket Shoulder Weep
[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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