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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.

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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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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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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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Abuse Athlete Commerce Fit Gone Make Men Pursuit Recieve Rule Shall Toward Young
In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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Choice Make Man Through Walk World
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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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.
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The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.
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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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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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We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment’s rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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