The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
IDA TARBELLImagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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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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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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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil … From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. …
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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An excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another’s shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another’s pockets.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical.
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