we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
IDA TARBELLRockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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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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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.
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Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
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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.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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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 more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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