The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
IDA TARBELLThe 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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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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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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[On dishonest business methods:] … frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other’s weaknesses!.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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An excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another’s shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another’s pockets.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women – contributes to their health, happiness, development – is good for business.
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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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Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices.
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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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