The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd.
IDA TARBELLA mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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The quest of the truth had been born in me – the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man’s quests.
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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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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.
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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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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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How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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