The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
IDA TARBELLRockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
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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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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.
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It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women – contributes to their health, happiness, development – is good for business.
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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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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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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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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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