We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
IDA TARBELLIt 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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The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd.
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As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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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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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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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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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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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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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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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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