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  You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

  Vernon Howard

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

  Publilius Syrus

  Want, Poverty, Avarice

  "Maxims". 441,

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• Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

  Janwillem van de Wetering

  Mouths, Demon, Enough

  Janwillem Van De Wetering (2003). “Just a Corpse at Twilight”, p.118, Soho Press

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• Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.

  Henry Ford

  War, Dirty, Dollars

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• Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Money, Cost, Driven

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

  Honore de Balzac

  Passion, Gold, Extravagance

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• Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

  Nina Simone

  Crazy, Home, Thinking

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• We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Business, Self, Moral

  Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937

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• Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

  Mason Cooley

  Lust, Literature, Innocence

  "City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1991.

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• Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

  Cyril Connolly

  Love, Comfort, Literature

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Life, Lines

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Spring, Suffering, Sorrow

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• Greed is permanent slavery

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Insightful

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• There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Loneliness, Feelings

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• You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thanksgiving, Being Happy, Gratitude

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• There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

  Laozi

  Money, Guilt, Desire

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• As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

  Rick Danko

  Dream, Cutting, Apples

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• White folks' greed runs a world in need.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Running, White, Needs

  "Misrepresenting Obama's audiobook, Hannity claimed Obama said, 'White folks' greed runs a world in need'" by Varun Piplani, www.mediamatters.org. August 21, 2008.

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• Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Soul, Extravagance, Literature

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• It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.

  Boris Johnson

  Ecosystems, Understanding, Feelings

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• There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

  Charles Kuralt

  People, Literature, Quiet

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• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

  Oliver Stone

  Movie, Great Year, Wimps

  "Wall Street". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

  Michael Douglas

  Money, Cutting, Essence

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• I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

  Kevin Bacon

  Money, Thinking, Numbers

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• The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beautiful, Crush, Gains

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.507, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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