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Ida Tarbell [1857-1944] American
Rank: 101
Journalist, Author


Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American teacher, author and journalist. She was one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is thought to have pioneered investigative journalism.

Chance, Imagination, Men, Money, War



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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition. Men, Money, War
102
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me. Chance
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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible. Imagination
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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.
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