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.
IDA TARBELLThe inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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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 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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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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He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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