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.
IDA TARBELLIt’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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 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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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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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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 little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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