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• The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

  Voltaire

  Hatred, Prosperity, Masters

  "'Essai sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations' ('Essay on the Manners of Nations')". Book by Voltaire. Introduction, XLII, 1756.

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• Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

  Kenneth Clark

  Principles, Delight, Ruthless

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• As long as you tithe you cannot be greedy or needy.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Long, Needy, Tithe

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• A little spoon for a cup of soup teaches to be patient; and the big one, to be greedy!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Spoons, Soup, Littles

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• I'm not greedy. I just want one person. The world is so big and there are so many people. But I only want one.

  Elise Valmorbida

  People, World, Want

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• Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Office, Actors, Want

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• Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

  Lewis Carroll

  Son, Men, Snakes

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• Christians and Jews go after those who have access to raw materials but who prevent access to them. Oil is the best example. The US and its allies are constantly intervening in countries where they don't belong only to defend their prosperity. We aren't fighting because we are greedy and selfish, rather we are fighting for values and morals.

  Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

  Christian, Country, Selfish

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Western world is ... looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. And Sept. 11 is an occasion for me to realize it even more.

  Jean Chretien

  Self, Arrogant, World

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• Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative

  Eliot Wigginton

  Teaching, Lazy, Occupation

  Eliot Wigginton (1986). “Sometimes a Shining Moment: The Foxfire Experience”, Doubleday

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• We are the bullies of the earth: strong, foul, coarse, greedy, careless, indifferent to others, laying waste as we proceed, leaving wounds, welts, lesions, suppurations on the earth body, increasingly engulfed by our own ordure and, finally, abysmally ignorant of the way the world works, crowing our superiority over all life.

  Ian McHarg

  Strong, Bully, Leaving

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• Within a month of intense life in the mountains is going through so much, what used to be a period of several years; This is a occupancy for people greedy for life - human life is not enough.

  Jerzy Kukuczka

  Years, People, Mountain

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• For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Climbing, Ambitious, Summit

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• If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

  Satish Kumar

  Environmental, Goes On, Earth

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• I'm not greedy. I just want my half.

  Tom Cruise

  Money, Want, Half

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• One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit; while you treat them well, they are yours. They would shed their blood for you, risk their property, their lives, their children, so long, as I said above, as danger is remote; but when you are in danger they turn against you.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Children, Liars, Men

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, www.cnn.com. 1532.

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• One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Son, Men

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.93, Penguin

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• A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.

  Thomas Nagel

  Conceited, Psychology, May

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mortal Questions”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

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• The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).

  Manny Farber

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.517, Library of America

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• There will never be peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world. How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top. .... There is absolutely no way that government can operate successfully unless led by godly men and women operating under the laws of the God of Jacob

  Pat Robertson

  Religious, Atheist, Godly

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• I'm attracted to intelligence and creativity and passion - and not necessarily the romantic kind. I want to learn from someone who is greedy for information and light and laughter and the whole world. Someone who celebrates their days and finds inspiration in what other people accomplish.

  Renee Zellweger

  Laughter, Inspiration, Passion

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We have a greedy cycle where Human Rights Commissions fine citizens in order to pay their own salaries so they can employ more Human Rights Commissions. It's a bounty system where the prizes are business owner's heads. And so as restaurants go broke, tourists get stabbed. That's human rights in New York. And perhaps America.

  Greg Gutfeld

  New York, America, Rights

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• What is your dream? To be the most famous man in the world? What a stupid dream you have! To conquer the whole world with an army? What a primitive dream you have! To earn millions of dollars? What a greedy dream you have! Question your dreams!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dream, Stupid, Army

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• He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

  Seneca the Younger

  World, Resignation, Perishing

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• Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyones money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice.

  Jonathan Raymond

  Issues, Bills, Bank Accounts

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