"There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair. 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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Source : "The History of the Standard Oil Company". Book by Ida Tarbell (originally serialized in nineteen parts in McClure's Magazine), 1904.

Ida Tarbell

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“Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.”

Source : Bruce Tognazzini (1992). “Tog on Interface”, Addison-Wesley Professional
“The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.”
“You don't achieve greatness in life being surrounded by mediocre people with mediocre values. Choose your company wisely.”
“The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.”

Source : Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.26, Simon and Schuster
“Acting was my first love.”
“We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them.”
“The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.”

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