The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
IDA TARBELLThe first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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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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Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap.
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Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power this story never would have been written.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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 gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is ‘unprofessional,.
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Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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