One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
IDA TARBELLVery 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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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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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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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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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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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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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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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Life is but a collection of habits.
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The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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