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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

Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.
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Competitor Country Dice Doubtful Fair Loaded People Peron Play Race Start Systematically
[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.
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Any Anyone Anything Care Company Competition Did Just People Person Without
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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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
How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.
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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
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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Admit Business Country Dealing Declare Employ End Excuse Force Fraud Hard Justify Legitimate Often People Person Privileges Secure See Sly Special Tricks Very Willing
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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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Built Clear Contribution Depend Had Ilusion Individual Litle Man Matter never Realize Value Woman
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
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
They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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Before Greatest Mistake Mobisy One Ourselves Pass Persuade Way
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
There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
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Athletic Dice Faur Game Loaded Must Start Table Tolerate World

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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