In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
IDA TARBELLIt is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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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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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment’s rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.
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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 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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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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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.
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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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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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