How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.
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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It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women – contributes to their health, happiness, development – is good for business.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.
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[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.
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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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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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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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