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

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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
IDA TARBELL

Character Expense Living Our Raise Standard
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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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical.
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An excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another’s shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another’s pockets.
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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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