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Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative.

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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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Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power this story never would have been written.
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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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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, ‘It’s business.’ That is, ‘it’s business’ has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.
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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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