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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

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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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He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.
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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical.
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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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Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, ‘It’s business.’ That is, ‘it’s business’ has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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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.
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After Anything Begin Chain Come Each End Endless Link Little Nobody Person Sonder Strong Those Weak
[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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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