In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
IDA TARBELLA more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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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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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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Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
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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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Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
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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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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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