Ida Tarbell Quotes

Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil ... From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. ... Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices. If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.

Ida Tarbell

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• I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

  

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• I believe in God, but I don't know what it is - if it's a he, she, a he-she, or anything. Who knows what it is. All I know is that I feel like there's something else there.

  

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• There is no religion higher than truth.

  

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• My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

  

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• I trained in the theatre.

  

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• His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
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• And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.

  

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• Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

  

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• To me it was so natural that companies should seek their own survival. I had seen nothing else in my life. Companies struggle to keep going and to grow, for as long as possible.

  

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  • Natural
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  • Companies

• Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil ... From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. ... Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices. If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Companies
  • Speculation
  • Oil stock