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

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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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Character Expense Living Our Raise Standard
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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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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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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Choice Make Man Through Walk World
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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Detach Easily Lay Mind Old Really Subject
Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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Company Know Oil People Standard Truth Want
Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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Become Business Canoonise Hero Like Made Men National Oil Standard Success Trust
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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Admire Arouse Contempt Depress Ethical Feature Less Logical Matter Method More Most One Openly Side Such
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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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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Better Choose Common Democracy Fair Fellow Man Open Path Prescribe Secret Sound Way
A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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Being Fuller Hamper Human Immediate Life More Movement Way Wring
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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Absorb Complete Until Cultivate Feel Intellectual Media Mind Process Reproduce Some Truly
No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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Destroy Only Original Owner Value
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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Alone Bether Interfere Men Prepare Render Service Thing Useful Woman

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