To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
IDA TARBELLRockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.
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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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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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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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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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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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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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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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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