A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
IDA TARBELLSpeculation in oil stock companies was another great evil … From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. …
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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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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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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 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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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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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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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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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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