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"Every greed is the root of un-gratefulness."
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"John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil."
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"Why can a Grisha possess but one amplifier? I will answer this question instead: What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men."
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"Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible."
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"If you live for money, no amount will ever satisfy you."
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"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."
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"Greed's worst point is its ingratitude."
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"Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer."
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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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"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."
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"The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth."
Creativity
"For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name."
Psychology
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever."
Politics
"Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, "Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so." And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself."
Behavior
"It is impossible to read through the reports in the Communist Press without realizing that they are consciously aimed at a public ignorant of the facts and have no other purpose than to work up prejudice."
Society
"And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't really mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You want it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself."
Behavior
"Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea."
Culture
"People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the contrary, an illiterate man, with the work habit in his bones, needs work even more than he needs money. An educated man can put up with enforced idleness, which is one of the worst evils of poverty. But a man like Paddy, with no means of filling up time, is as miserable out of work as a dog on the chain. That is why it is such nonsense to pretend that those who have 'come down in the world' are to be pitied above all others.The man who really merits pity is the man who has been down from the start,and faces poverty with a blank, resourceless mind."
Society
"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."
Food
"Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."
Creativity
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