There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
IDA TARBELLWe 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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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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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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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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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 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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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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