One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
IDA TARBELLI have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions.
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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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Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power this story never would have been written.
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I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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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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As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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