Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, ‘It’s business.’ That is, ‘it’s business’ has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.
IDA TARBELLOne of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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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.
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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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 popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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