Capitalism is of this material world; it provides us with the means to live; it empowers us within the known world of sense and human reason. If it is to be measured by a strict standard of holiness, by religious normativity alone, then there can never be a moral capitalism.

Stephen Young

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I could not move them. They would not even agree to a modification, of the ruling (banning the Rand vaccine), which would at least allow the 100 (cancer) patients at Richmond Heights (Ohio) to complete their injections. The Justice Department was prepared to go along, but the FDA commissioner, Dr. James Goddard, was adamant, even belligerent. It's wrong of the government to snatch away this hope when there is no evidence against its use offered in court. It's damnably wrong.

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We haven't figured out a way to get sensors that can discriminate between decoys and warheads. The technology doesn't exist yet.

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Gun violence is not something that appears just in a bad neighborhood or in another part of the world. It appears right here, right outside your door.

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Micromessaging -- communicating with other human beings through visual, audible, sublingual means, no doubt predates our ability to speak. We actually read micromessages quite naturally without thinking about them. You might say human beings read each other's micromessages subconsciously, in the same way that one dog understands another dog is unfriendly simply because the dog's fur is standing on end. The dogs read each other perfectly. It's not all that different for people.

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Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

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Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

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Persistence goes a lot farther than brains. by Stephen Young

Persistence goes a lot farther than brains.

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Questions are far more effective than defensive statements. They do not imply agreement, but they do convey interest and a desire to understand and facilitate an environment for peak performance, a central thread of effective leadership.... The next time someone accuses you of virtually anything, ask some questions. Resolving the situation may take more time, but the outcome will likely be more productive for both of you.

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We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meanin... by Stephen Young

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

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People live up to your expectations, not their potential. by Stephen Young

People live up to your expectations, not their potential.

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If you really want something, you've got to keep going after it. by Stephen Young

If you really want something, you've got to keep going after it.

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A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.

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It's great to see the World Rowing Championships returning to U.S. soil for the first time in 25 years. I am even more excited that it will be taking place in my home state of Florida. Regardless of where my rowing career takes me, I am sure to be in attendance in Sarasota in 2017.

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Given the president's denial of climate change ... I don't know if ironic is the word to capture how strange it would be for the results of climate change to adversely impact the president's ability to control U.S. nuclear weapons in a crisis.

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