"The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service."
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"Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness."
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"The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul."
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"We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do. And you've got to understand the price you pay for frivolity or just for greed - it's a very high price, especially if you're involved in this sacred material, which is about the human heart and human desire and human tragedy."
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"But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest."
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"Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm."
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"Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts."
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"Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need."
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"Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending"
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"Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed."
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"We risk all in being too greedy."
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"There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed."
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"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."
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"If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence."
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"Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires."
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"People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed."
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"There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone."
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"Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth."
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"The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history."
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"Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough - whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us."
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