Ida Tarbell Quotes
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. Canonise 'business success,' and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.
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I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.
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I think it is very important for all actors to complete their studies side by side.
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It shows 'us vs. them', and I'm on the 'us' side.
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At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.
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I am attracted to the dark side of life!
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The flip side of humiliation is pride.
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
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One on God's side is a majority.
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I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention.' I know that's sort of depressing, but I love watching it.
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People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.
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Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.
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Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.
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I have certain physical features that I favor over others. We all have our areas.
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Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side.
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Fame is drag. The paparazzi culture is more pervasive than it used to be. On the positive side, it’s nice not to have to worry about bills.
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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
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Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.
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People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden.-Have, get, before it cloy.
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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. Canonise 'business success,' and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
