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.
IDA TARBELLA mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
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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Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions.
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Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil … From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. …
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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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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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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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical.
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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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