Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
IDA TARBELLYou cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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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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It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women – contributes to their health, happiness, development – is good for business.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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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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