Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
IDA TARBELLThere is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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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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Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.
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[On dishonest business methods:] … frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other’s weaknesses!.
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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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Such 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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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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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