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.
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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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn’t considered.
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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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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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If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.
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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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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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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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