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When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is ‘unprofessional,.

Ida Tarbell

Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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Become Business Canoonise Hero Like Made Men National Oil Standard Success Trust
One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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Enthusiasm Heart Human Memory Noble One Permanent Possession
If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.
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Down Enough Great Knock Market Price Production Fell Quantity Stock Throw
It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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Always Happen Hear never Occur Revolution Thing
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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After Anything Begin Chain Come Each End Endless Link Little Nobody Person Sonder Strong Those Weak
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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Alone Bether Interfere Men Prepare Render Service Thing Useful Woman
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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Admire Arouse Contempt Depress Ethical Feature Less Logical Matter Method More Most One Openly Side Such
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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Another Business Carry Conclusion Excuse Frailty Human Leave Legitimate Men One Pick Pocket Shoulder Weep
[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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Back Business Charity Christian Defender Dishonest Doctrine Erring Fall Frequently Method Mortal Point Practice Weakness
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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Ambition Behind Democracy Destroy Initiative Mean Motion National Our Ourselves Perhaps Standardization Standardize Surest Way
We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
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Art Boast Boost Commercial Craft Cultivation People Produce Wealth
He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.
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Better Choose Common Democracy Fair Fellow Man Open Path Prescribe Secret Sound Way
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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Cheerful Comfort Comparatively Contempt Country Endurance Hardship New Pioneer Surrounding Thing Virtue
I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful.
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Book Company Corrupt Decide Eye Open People Person Successful Unfair Used Ways Write
Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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Age Cheerful Finest Influence Old One Rip Understanding Useful World
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.
IDA TARBELL

Been Born Essential Incomplete Man Most Quest Tragic Truth Well

When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is ‘unprofessional,.

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