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 TARBELLI 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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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.
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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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,.
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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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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.
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