The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
IDA TARBELLCheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical.
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