Ida Tarbell Quotes
Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.Ida Tarbell
Quotes to Explore
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
Washed Out -
If I'm in work mode and going to meetings, I'll make an effort and dress up, but when I'm at home or just chilling, I'm in beanies and jeans and sneakers.
Maia Mitchell -
The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
J. A. Konrath -
That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
H. L. Mencken -
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.
Nadia Comaneci -
People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
Carl Paladino -
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
M. J. Rose -
When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
Zac Brown Band -
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
T. S. Eliot
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
Ian Frazier -
Siberia is a state of mind.
Ian Frazier -
And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
Samantha Smith -
Summertime is my favorite time of year in Sandpoint, reason being, Lake Pend Oreille is warm and ready for action.
Nate Holland -
People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
LaToya Jackson -
This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
Frances E. Willard
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
Zara Cox -
I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
J. Cole -
Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
Bastian Schweinsteiger -
We must go beyond organic, as it is currently defined in the National Organic Standards, and strive for food that is not only healthful and natural but also local... Buying locally means farmers get more of the food dollar, we get better nutrition, and less fuel is consumed in transport.
Kathleen Merrigan -
Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
Ida Tarbell