"In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man."

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Source : Ida M. Tarbell (2015). “All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography”, p.21, Ravenio Books

Ida Tarbell

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“There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions.”
“Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?”

Source : Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.162, Granta Books
“My Umi said shine your light on the world, shine your light for the world to see”
“Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.”
“If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.”
“California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.”
“Being weak is a choice, so is being strong.”
“Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.”

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