We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
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.
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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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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions.
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If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.
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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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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 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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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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