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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,.

Ida Tarbell

[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.
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Any Anyone Anything Care Company Competition Did Just People Person Without
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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Assumption Everything First Gun Imperative Mean Men Money Most Necessity War
Life is but a collection of habits.
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Collection Habit Life One Liner
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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Detach Easily Lay Mind Old Really Subject
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.
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Become Believe Comment Corrupt Country Final Man Person Still Unfair Use Wealthy
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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Admit Business Country Dealing Declare Employ End Excuse Force Fraud Hard Justify Legitimate Often People Person Privileges Secure See Sly Special Tricks Very Willing
Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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Age Cheerful Finest Influence Old One Rip Understanding Useful World
I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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Company Know Oil People Standard Truth Want
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
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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Down Enough Great Knock Market Price Production Fell Quantity Stock Throw
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
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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Activity Child Comfort Defeat Direct Do Meaning Purpose Restless See Self Sleep Something Work Year
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
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
My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing.
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Based Belief Discipline Do Education Improvement Individual Righ Right Sake Self Control Society Theory Thing Whole
There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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Apply Effective Feverish Figure Medicine More Public Settlement

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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