Life is but a collection of habits.
IDA TARBELLA popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
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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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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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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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One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical.
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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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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