My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn’t considered.
IDA TARBELLThe athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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 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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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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’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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The quest of the truth had been born in me – the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man’s quests.
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