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.
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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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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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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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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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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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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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the 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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