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"Greed in human nature may now come near to enslaving all humanity by means of the Machine - so fast and far has progress gone with it. This will be evident to anyone who stops to study the modern mechanistic Moloch and takes time to view it in its larger aspects."
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"Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism."
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"We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation."
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"Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons."
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"Corporate greed is killing America, and that's what we battling at Boeing."
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"The greed for fruit misses the flower."
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"Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused."
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"Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed."
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"Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there."
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"Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous."
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"Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more."
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"Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession."
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"Fraud is the daughter of greed."
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"When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it."
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"Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost."
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"It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world."
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"Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it."
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"Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins."
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"Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values."
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