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.
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 wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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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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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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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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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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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 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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