You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
IDA TARBELLThe economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.
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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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The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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Life is but a collection of habits.
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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did.
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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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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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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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