One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
IDA TARBELLI 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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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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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They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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 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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.
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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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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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There 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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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