The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
IDA TARBELLSacredness 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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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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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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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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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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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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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I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.
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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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