The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
IDA TARBELLIn walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer.
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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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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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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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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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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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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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