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.
IDA TARBELLRipe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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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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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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The quest of the truth had been born in me – the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man’s quests.
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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap.
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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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