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.
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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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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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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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Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from 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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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