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• Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Hate, Men, Vices

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• Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

  Sallust

  Extravagance, Property, Extravagant

  'Catiline' ch. 5

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• Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

  Plutarch

  Merit, Praise, Poor

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• John Prescott has made the government look greedy and ridiculous. Labour is seen as the corrupt party. The government has been fulfilling the old rule that oppositions do not win elections, governments lose them.

  William Rees-Mogg

  Party, Winning, Government

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• When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them.

  Louis C. K.

  Selfish, Kids, Inspire

  "Louis C.K.: The ESQ+A". Interview With Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2011.

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• All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others' lives for it.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Average, Wish, Hazards

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2010). “The Windup Girl”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or self-destructive. Our social nature is such that we tend to meet the expectations of our elders. Whenever this reversal took place and our elders stopped expecting us to be social and expected us to be anti-social, just to put it in gross terms, that's when the real fall took place. And we're paying for it dearly.

  Jean Liedloff

  Real, Selfish, Fall

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• One’s life, liberty and the products of one’s labor were not intended to be up for grabs by grubby, greedy majorities. Contra classical natural law theory, legal positivism equates justice with the law of the state. However, from the fact that most Americans want others to fund or subsidize their health care, it does not follow that they have such a right. A need is not a right.

  Ilana Mercer

  Men, Liberty, Want

  "The Defunct Foundations of the Republic". www.wnd.com. January 01, 2010.

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• I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.

  May Sarton

  Flower, Garden, Plant

  May Sarton (2015). “Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Year”, p.188, Open Road Media

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• I've never been the big recording star I'd love to be some day. I've had lots of hits off and on through the years but I've never had the success of other artists - one hit after another back-to-back-to-back and big hits, where every song is going to be number one. I'm not greedy or nothing. I just want everything. Is there something wrong with that?

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Stars, Artist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Heart, Ideas, No Idea

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.233, Dial Press

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• Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!

  Pythagoras

  Vegetarianism, Wickedness, Body

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• It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century that has seen Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Castro, Pol Pot-and we're still being warned against the 'robber barons' of the 19th century. I don't know that Jay Gould or John D. Rockefeller ever killed anyone. The State has killed countless people, and yet we're always supposed to remain on guard against these 'greedy villains' of yesteryear.

  Joseph Sobran

  Real, People, John D Rockefeller

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• The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, yet nothing satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life.

  Pythagoras

  Mother, Sorry, Philosophical

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• FREE animals of the jungle/air/sea/mountains are called 'wild', 'savage', 'vicious', 'beasts' who defend themselves and their own territories from greedy, ruthless 'brave' men armed to the teeth/ with snares, tranquilizing guns, other. Enslaving them forever, then murdering them, THEN calling them 'dumb'!!!

  Adela Popescu

  Animal, Gun, Men

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• God is inexhaustible in His gifts to men? Everywhere we see plenty and joy; only the greedy rich lay their hands on and keep in their treasuries too many of God's gifts, which might plentifully nourish hundreds and thousands of poor. Man! Believe firmly in God's inexhaustibility in His gifts, and willingly 'deal your bread to the hungry' (Isa. 58:7)?

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Believe, Men

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• In the early 1700's, two physicians...learned about pinkroot's efficacy from the Indians. The word soon spread to the general public, who praised this worm treatment, particularly against roundworms, for the next 200 years. Pinkroot fell into disuse in the early 1900's, simply because greedy herb dealers adulterated or even substituted shipments of true pinkroot with quantities of other plants.

  Michael Savage

  Dark, Years, Two

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• People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Blood, Play, People

  Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• I stand before you today heart broken, I know history and I love this country ...God blessed this country and it took sacrifice because even though they were endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that's an inheritance. And if you are not willing to fight for you inheritance, even when you leave your children, if they won't fight for it, they don't keep it. Mean greedy evil people will take it away.

  Louie Gohmert

  Country, Children, Blessed

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• The frequency of anger attracts the frequency of anger, the frequency of greed attracts the frequency of greed, and so on. This is the law of attraction.
  
  Negativity attracts negativity, just as love attracts love.
  
  Therefore, the world of an angry person is filled with angry people, the world of a greedy person is filled with greedy people, and a loving person lives in a world of loving people.

  Gary Zukav

  Law Of Attraction, People, Greed

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• What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you. That's not just my theory or point of view, it's physics. Life is an energy of giving and receiving... Those that are greedy, hit a road block where they are alone. Give more than you receive and be grateful for those around you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Block, Grateful, Views

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• People think that if everyone knows the power of the LOA there won't be enough to go around .. This is a lie that's been ingrained in us and makes so many greedy.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Lying, Thinking, Law Of Attraction

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• We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwealth of Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians, where people's wealth depends on the people around you. If you become a rich person and everyone around you is poor you are very poor.

  Goodluck Jonathan

  Country, People, Want

  Interview with Isha Sesay, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2010.

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• If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it recapture memories of things that used to be.
  But music is greedy and it wants more of your heart than that. It demands the future, your future. Music wants the rest of your life. So you can't rest easy.
  At any moment, a song can come out of nowhere to shake you up, jump-start your emotions, ruin your life.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Memories, Heart

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• What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by phrases about 'Man taking charge of his own destiny'. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy, cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before?

  C. S. Lewis

  Powerful, Destiny, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.353, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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