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.
IDA TARBELLThe inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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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I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer.
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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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