One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
IDA TARBELLMany 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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I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful.
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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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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
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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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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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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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