The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
IDA TARBELLThey 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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing.
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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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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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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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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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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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[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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