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• No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Actors, Want, Available

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• The truly greedy, it seems to me, are those who think they've a right to live well at the expense of others.

  Jack Kelly

  Thinking, Live Well, Expenses

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• Do not accept principal risk while investing short-term cash: the greedy effort to earn a few extra basis points of yield inevitably leads to the incurrence of greater risk, which increases the likelihood of losses and severe illiquidity at precisely the moment when cash is needed to cover expenses, to meet commitments, or to make compelling long-term investments.

  Seth Klarman

  Commitment, Loss, Yield

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• Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.

  Warren Buffett

  Fearful

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• The real enemy is not fat but us. We are the misusers; we are the greedy ones. If we have no better sense than to purposefully destroy ourselves, it is no wonder that nature punishes us with vile diseases and calls in our maker long before their time. Nature remembers every extra bite of cherry pie, T-bone steak, fried chicken, pizza.

  Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

  Real, Pie, Long

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• The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Etc, Individual, Extensions

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• You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.

  Terry Pratchett

  Long, Looks, Scum

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• Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.

  Warren Buffett

  Greed, Fearful

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• I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.

  John Wayne

  Men, Want, Old Man

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• If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

  Chris Martin

  People, Company, Bottom

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• Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers in D.C. ruining our world are just greedy kids grabbing for marbles - I think that realization means you're an adult.

  Conor Oberst

  Mean, Kids, Insecure

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• Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

  Camille Paglia

  Past, Rome, Hopeless

  "Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times". Book by Charles Derber, p. 12, 2017.

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• I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy.

  Kid Rock

  Children, Men, Fire

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from May 15, 2014

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• Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Reckless, Fine

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

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• If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.

  Amy Tan

  Hungry, Ifs

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.43, Penguin

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• Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not." "Doesn't she? Don't all of you? This is your first taste of the things which may come from your being powerful mages. People will offer you gold, status, even love. I want to know how you will react. If want to know if your teachers will release greedy, thoughtless monsters into the world.

  Tamora Pierce

  Teacher, Powerful, People

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Daja's Book”, p.74, Scholastic Inc.

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• Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

  Gore Vidal

  Inspirational, Needs, Want

  Gore Vidal (1978). “Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976”, Vintage

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• As long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Silly, Fighting, Long

  "Fictional character: T.E. Lawrence". "Lawrence of Arabia", www.imdb.com. 1962.

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• In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt Lake Valley. In a sense, they were the first American irrigators of any significance. And their knowledge about the art of applying water to land has spread throughout the world.

  Stuart Campbell

  Art, Rain, Utah

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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