Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
IDA TARBELLThere is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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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Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices.
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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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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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