It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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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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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd.
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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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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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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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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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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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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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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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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil … From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. …
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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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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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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I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.
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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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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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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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Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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