A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
IDA TARBELLSuch 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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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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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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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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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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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An excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another’s shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another’s pockets.
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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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