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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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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 are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, ‘It’s business.’ That is, ‘it’s business’ has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.
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[On dishonest business methods:] … frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other’s weaknesses!.
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Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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