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One of the most revealing things about a country is the way it takes the threat of war.
All in the Day's Work (1939)
One must be an artist before he can create-that I knew.
All in the Day's Work (1939)
These long rides, these night waits, brought unforgettable looks into human lives. Strange how travelers will confide their ambitions, unload their secrets, show their scars to strangers.
All in the Day's Work (1939)
Even more hopeful, if not so clear to many people, is the increasing knowledge that we are getting of man as an individual and as a mass, coming to us particularly from men of science.
All in the Day's Work (1939)
In spite of my painful efforts to make a regular worker out of myself, life at college was lightened by my discovery of the Boy.
All in the Day's Work (1939)
the unpalatable fact that business always moves in cycles-that a boom will be followed by a slump, that common sense demands preparedness.
All in the Day's Work (1939)
It was the men who saw industry as a cooperative undertaking who gave me heart. I do not mean political cooperation, but practical cooperation, worked out on the ground by the persons concerned.
All in the Day's Work (1939)
economic independence-the first plank in my platform.
All in the Day's Work (1939)
This classification of muckraker, which I did not like
All in the Day's Work (1939)
It has been sickening to see hopes grow dim under the hammering of reality, to see a generation lose its first grand fire and sink into apathy, cynicism. One asks oneself if man has the staying power ever to realize his ideals.
All in the Day's Work (1939)
I realized at the start that I had found what I had come to college for, direction in the only field in which I was interested-science.
All in the Day's Work (1939)
If there were leaders in practically every industry who regarded it not only as sound ethics but as sound economics to improve the lot of the worker, ought not the public to be familiarized with this belief?
All in the Day's Work (1939)
the obsession of the Standard Oil Company, that danger lurked in small as well as great things, that nothing, however trivial, must live outside of its control.
All in the Day's Work (1939)
Now and then I came upon a man or woman who dared to say to me when he had me in a corner: "I am a pacifist. We must find another way." With which I so heartily agreed. But that man or woman would not have said that on the street corner without danger to his life.
All in the Day's Work (1939)
What I never could make some of these friends see was that I had no quarrel with corporate business so long as it played fair. It was the unfairness I feared and despised. I had no quarrel with men of wealth if they could show performance back of it untainted by privilege.
All in the Day's Work (1939)