It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
IDA TARBELLwe were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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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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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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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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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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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.
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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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Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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