We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
IDA TARBELLIf 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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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power this story never would have been written.
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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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
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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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The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
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An excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another’s shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another’s pockets.
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Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil … From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. …
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[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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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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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