"Avarice is rarely the vice of youth."
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"The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed."
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"It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed."
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"Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" thought the greed of getting supporters."
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"There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator - greed motivating evolution. But there's a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it."
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"Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people."
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"Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak."
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"There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed."
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"World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds."
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"Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost."
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"I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues."
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"Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves."
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"Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men."
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"Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future."
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"Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places."
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"The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form."
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"It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time."
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"A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those "liberals" who prefer to improve the lives of others rather than exploit them. Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the hightest altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for our vast freedom not only to conform but to consume."
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"Greed is too flimsy to flawed"
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"O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches."
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