One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
IDA TARBELL
The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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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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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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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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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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If 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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