Stephen Young Quotes

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

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#2. Alaska Dispatch said the disappearance never made it into the Newspapers at the time, and adds, "His vanishing is like all the others, who over the years have turned to ghosts; their disappearances leaving no trace of them at all behind...

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#3. 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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#4. People live up to your expectations, not their potential.

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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. 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.

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

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#9. 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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#10. Goldberg claims time travel is easy. "It is simply a matter of using the Fifth Dimensional Travel exercise," he says, that he presents on his website.

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