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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

I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
IDA TARBELL

Fundamental Impose Improvement Law never Ordinance Seen Top
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.
IDA TARBELL

Absurd Bread Important Make Man More Raise Theory Woman Work
There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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Apply Effective Feverish Figure Medicine More Public Settlement
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.
IDA TARBELL

Absorb Complete Until Cultivate Feel Intellectual Media Mind Process Reproduce Some Truly
The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did.
IDA TARBELL

Been Business Do Experiment Long Shorter Stand Surprise Fight
To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
IDA TARBELL

Above Creative Democratic Dumb Essential Growth Ideal Impulse Vitality
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.
IDA TARBELL

Another Business Carry Conclusion Excuse Frailty Human Leave Legitimate Men One Pick Pocket Shoulder Weep
Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.
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Always Been Handle Idea Injustice Many Misery Must Oldest Reason Scientifically Tell Tolerating Unemployed Way
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.
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Affairs Assurance Attend Conviction Decent Effort Immortal Left Life Mind Mortal Much Necessary never Next Overspeclation Peace Person Too Useful World
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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Detach Easily Lay Mind Old Really Subject
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.
IDA TARBELL

After Anything Begin Chain Come Each End Endless Link Little Nobody Person Sonder Strong Those Weak
The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
IDA TARBELL

Advantage Doubtful Economic Have Been Sobriety
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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Built Clear Contribution Depend Had Ilusion Individual Litle Man Matter never Realize Value Woman
Life is but a collection of habits.
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Collection Habit Life One Liner
Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
IDA TARBELL

Become Business Canoonise Hero Like Made Men National Oil Standard Success Trust
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
IDA TARBELL

Abonded Against Belong Circle Knew replace Respectable Security Value Whole Force Won

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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