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01Undated

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

Ida Tarbell / quote

02Undated

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.

Ida Tarbell / quote

03Undated

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

Ida Tarbell / quote

04Undated

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

Ida Tarbell / quote