Ida Tarbell Short Quotes

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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.

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She was one of those who always see spring in a single sparrow.

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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from 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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.

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We were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiment than figures.

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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's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!

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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

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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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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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The more people who knew about Lincoln, the more chance democracy had to destroy its two chief enemies, privilege and militancy.

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A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some medium the thing which it has absorbed.

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Standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to benumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.

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Those long rides, these night waits, brought unforgettable looks into human lives. Strange how travelers will confide their ambitions, unload their secrets, show their scars to strangers.

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