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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

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

Character Expense Living Our Raise Standard
It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
IDA TARBELL

Alone Civilized Deny Justice Make Part Women World Wound
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.
IDA TARBELL

Acumen Auch Banker Business Corner Employ Employed Expose Grocer Ground Method Persistency Secrecy Sort
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
The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
IDA TARBELL

Advantage Doubtful Economic Have Been Sobriety
Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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Association Bank Board Build Oil Rockefeller Room Standard Street Wall
Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power this story never would have been written.
IDA TARBELL

Company Country Guilty Monopolistic Now Oconcern Oil Power Practice Standard Story Write
In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
IDA TARBELL

Choice Make Man Through Walk World
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.
IDA TARBELL

Achievement Death Defend Every Held Human Indifference Industry Land Moment Necessary Part Rage Sport Sunk War
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.
IDA TARBELL

Built Clear Contribution Depend Had Ilusion Individual Litle Man Matter never Realize Value Woman
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
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
No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
IDA TARBELL

Destroy Only Original Owner Value
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.
IDA TARBELL

Based Belief Discipline Do Education Improvement Individual Righ Right Sake Self Control Society Theory Thing Whole
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
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

Business Competitive Competitor Crowd Disdainful Doctor Fellow Fight Lawyer Man Method Ostracism Other Privilege Receive Secure Special Summary Track Tsame Unprofessional When
The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
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Abuse Athlete Commerce Fit Gone Make Men Pursuit Recieve Rule Shall Toward Young
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
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.
IDA TARBELL

Ambition Behind Democracy Destroy Initiative Mean Motion National Our Ourselves Perhaps Standardization Standardize Surest Way
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.
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Been Business Do Experiment Long Shorter Stand Surprise Fight
[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
The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
IDA TARBELL

Glad Have Marry One Only Reason Will Woman
The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
IDA TARBELL

Alone Bether Interfere Men Prepare Render Service Thing Useful Woman
I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
IDA TARBELL

Company Know Oil People Standard Truth Want
A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
IDA TARBELL

Control Disturbance Full Long never Popular Remain Start
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
There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
IDA TARBELL

Athletic Dice Faur Game Loaded Must Start Table Tolerate World

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