Greed Quotes
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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.
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Greed and desire Not peace, but fire Coveting creation Created damnation Pulled alongside A gate thrown too wide Now our home calls And darkness fall "I rubbed my temples, feeling a headache coming on."A for effort, ladies, but F for clarity. You do realise that your wierd poem things never explain anything".
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Well, 'They Live' was a primal scream against Reaganism of the '80s. And the '80s never went away. They're still with us. That's what makes 'They Live' look so fresh - it's a document of greed and insanity. It's about life in the United States then and now. If anything, things have gotten worse.
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It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
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We shall have to practise to lead our life on the basis of our needs, not under the influence of our greed.
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It's not in my mission to work against Euroskepticism; it's my mission to work for fair markets. In antitrust, what is at stake is, in some ways, as old as Adam and Eve because it is about greed, to get more.
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Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.
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There's a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed and envy and ego. Whereas the National Book Awards are in New York.
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It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want to take away what somebody else has earned, and let politicians use it to buy votes.
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Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?
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Empires of conquest don’t last, Administrator Perry. They hollow out from within, from the greed of rulers and the endless appetite for war.
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There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.
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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
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Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy.
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Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
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The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.
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No greed was comparable to the appeal of self-sacrifice.
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Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
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There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.
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Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.
