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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
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My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn’t considered.
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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 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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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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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 have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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