"It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things."
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"Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death."
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"The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive."
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"... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better."
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"The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all."
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"Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on."
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"He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise."
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"So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice."
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"For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president."
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"Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline."
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"I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you're going to hear it in the music."
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"The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed."
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"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants."
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"The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart."
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"It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison."
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"Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give."
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"Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself."
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"Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry."
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"I think there's just too much greed in the world today [and] that's why we have problems."
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"God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected."
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