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They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.

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My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn’t considered.
IDA TARBELL

Become Believe Comment Corrupt Country Final Man Person Still Unfair Use Wealthy
The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
IDA TARBELL

Advantage Doubtful Economic Have Been Sobriety
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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Cheerful Comfort Comparatively Contempt Country Endurance Hardship New Pioneer Surrounding Thing Virtue
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
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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All Exist Future Imagination Key None Only Possible Thing
Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil … From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. …
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Another Company Contend Evil First Fluctuation Great Men Oil Price Speculation Stock
We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
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Art Boast Boost Commercial Craft Cultivation People Produce Wealth
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
Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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Association Bank Board Build Oil Rockefeller Room Standard Street Wall
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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Been Believe Defend Gold Human Idea Impose Land Life Live Quarrel Religion Sacredness Settle Won World
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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Achievement Death Defend Every Held Human Indifference Industry Land Moment Necessary Part Rage Sport Sunk War
[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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Back Business Charity Christian Defender Dishonest Doctrine Erring Fall Frequently Method Mortal Point Practice Weakness
It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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Alone Civilized Deny Justice Make Part Women World Wound
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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If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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Collection Habit Life One Liner

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