[On dishonest business methods:] … frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other’s weaknesses!.
IDA TARBELLIn walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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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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Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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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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How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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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