Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative.
IDA TARBELLIt is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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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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The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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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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They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
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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.
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