"You can be rich or deliberately refuse to be rich. You can possess money, or you can despise money; the one fatal thing is to worship money and fail to get it."

Greed, Money, Values, Wealth, Worship

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"For greed all nature is too little."

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Paul Samuelson, American Economist

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"Hoarding can never end, for the heart of man always covets for more, its raging appetites can only be quenched by the heavy sands of the grave."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal."

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Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

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"Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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Justin K. McFarlane Beau, Canadian Poet

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"Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Ah, Caderousse,' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.''The appetite grows by what it feeds on,' said Caderousse."

"I too often allow people to become a sterile commodity to be bartered in the service of my greed, and in doing something so absurdly reckless I foolishly barter away everything that meets my need."

"For greed all nature is too little."

"An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed."

"Hoarding can never end, for the heart of man always covets for more, its raging appetites can only be quenched by the heavy sands of the grave."

"Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal."

"You can satiate a Man's hunger but never his greed!"

"Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels."

"Avarice is opposed to nobility.It believes that by robbing many of all they have, that it (greed) is cloaked in the nobility that is the birthmark of the people."

"Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible."

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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."

"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."

"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."

"Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia."

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