Turning from means to ends, what about self-interest?

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It is nothing more than banker-speak in service of their own means to their profitable ends.

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They discussed at length different modalities, different outcomes, different means to get to the ends that Ben already has described -- and with an open door.

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Some have so lost sight of the ends in pursuing the means that each new government sanction or consumer-boycott-induced withdrawal of a foreign investor is celebrated as a triumph in itself.

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Ask for evidence to support assertions, demanding that ideologies be sufficiently elaborated to separate rhetoric from reality-based conclusions, to independently determine whether specific means ever justify vague and harmful ends.

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Experimentation by definition means trying out things that may not have been tried, and possibly lead to dead-ends.

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He does more of the latter now, perhaps because the cadence of fly-fishing--the rhythmic casting and drifting of the fly--connects him to his blacksmith days and hammers home his main conviction: Means matter more than ends.

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Madh means a bushy moustache, posht is a moustache hanging down at the ends and fshes is a long broom-like moustache with bristly hairs.

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