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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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Advantage Doubtful Economic Have Been Sobriety
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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Absurd Bread Important Make Man More Raise Theory Woman Work
You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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Country Danger Exposure Settle Sufer
I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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Fundamental Impose Improvement Law never Ordinance Seen Top
[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.
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Any Anyone Anything Care Company Competition Did Just People Person Without
If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.
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Down Enough Great Knock Market Price Production Fell Quantity Stock Throw
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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All Exist Future Imagination Key None Only Possible Thing
To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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Above Creative Democratic Dumb Essential Growth Ideal Impulse Vitality
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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Been Business Do Experiment Long Shorter Stand Surprise Fight
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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Always Been Handle Idea Injustice Many Misery Must Oldest Reason Scientifically Tell Tolerating Unemployed Way
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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Absorb Complete Until Cultivate Feel Intellectual Media Mind Process Reproduce Some Truly
It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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Alone Civilized Deny Justice Make Part Women World Wound
It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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Always Happen Hear never Occur Revolution Thing
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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Athletic Dice Faur Game Loaded Must Start Table Tolerate World
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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Better Choose Common Democracy Fair Fellow Man Open Path Prescribe Secret Sound Way
Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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Become Business Canoonise Hero Like Made Men National Oil Standard Success Trust
a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.
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After Anything Begin Chain Come Each End Endless Link Little Nobody Person Sonder Strong Those Weak
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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Art Boast Boost Commercial Craft Cultivation People Produce Wealth
No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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Destroy Only Original Owner Value
Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices.
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Alone Company Conspicuous Done Give Method Practice Public Scorn Standard
Life is but a collection of habits.
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Collection Habit Life One Liner
An excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another’s shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another’s pockets.
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Another Business Carry Conclusion Excuse Frailty Human Leave Legitimate Men One Pick Pocket Shoulder Weep
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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Detach Easily Lay Mind Old Really Subject
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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Assumption Everything First Gun Imperative Mean Men Money Most Necessity War
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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Become Believe Comment Corrupt Country Final Man Person Still Unfair Use Wealthy
There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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Apply Effective Feverish Figure Medicine More Public Settlement
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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Abuse Athlete Commerce Fit Gone Make Men Pursuit Recieve Rule Shall Toward Young

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