Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative.
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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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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 mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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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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