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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

You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
IDA TARBELL

Country Danger Exposure Settle Sufer
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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Acumen Auch Banker Business Corner Employ Employed Expose Grocer Ground Method Persistency Secrecy Sort
Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative.
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Ambition Behind Democracy Destroy Initiative Mean Motion National Our Ourselves Perhaps Standardization Standardize Surest Way
The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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Advantage Doubtful Economic Have Been Sobriety
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 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
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
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
[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
To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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Above Creative Democratic Dumb Essential Growth Ideal Impulse Vitality
A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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Control Disturbance Full Long never Popular Remain Start
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
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
I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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Company Know Oil People Standard Truth Want
Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices.
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Alone Company Conspicuous Done Give Method Practice Public Scorn Standard

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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