Life is but a collection of habits.
IDA TARBELLOne of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
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We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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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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