A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
IDA TARBELLThe 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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We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment’s rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.
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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.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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[On dishonest business methods:] … frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other’s weaknesses!.
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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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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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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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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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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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