Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil … From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. …
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They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women – contributes to their health, happiness, development – is good for business.
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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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