Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
IDA TARBELLOne of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is ‘unprofessional,.
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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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It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women – contributes to their health, happiness, development – is good for business.
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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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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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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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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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