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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

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I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.
IDA TARBELL

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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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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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Always Bank Business Buy Cheap Control Enough High Manage Money Rule Sell Stock Temporary
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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Speculation 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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Life is but a collection of habits.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is 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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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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Glad Have Marry One Only Reason Will Woman
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.
IDA TARBELL

Admit Business Country Dealing Declare Employ End Excuse Force Fraud Hard Justify Legitimate Often People Person Privileges Secure See Sly Special Tricks Very Willing
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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Absorb Complete Until Cultivate Feel Intellectual Media Mind Process Reproduce Some Truly
My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn’t considered.
IDA TARBELL

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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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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Assumption Everything First Gun Imperative Mean Men Money Most Necessity War

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