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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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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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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Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative.
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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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