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I took charge of the government as per my commitment to serving the country and the people, and not out of any greed for yet another post.
- Khil Raj Regmi
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The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st century, we must resurrect solidarity and compassion.
- Óscar Arias
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Well, 'They Live' was a primal scream against Reaganism of the '80s. And the '80s never went away. They're still with us. That's what makes 'They Live' look so fresh - it's a document of greed and insanity. It's about life in the United States then and now. If anything, things have gotten worse.
- John Carpenter
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The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of fulfillment to living a creative life. So I guess that's what keeps me going.
- Tommy Lee Jones
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During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.
- Andrew Lo
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While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.
- Andrew Lo
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
- Karen Joy Fowler
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Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.
- Yash Chopra
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Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue: Greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees.
- Glenda Jackson
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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.
- Al Stewart
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I learned to see myself and my role as a capitalist... as somebody who's trying to harness, for myself and for society, the power of greed and the power of the will to acquire into something that makes the world a better place. That's the version of capitalism that we want.
- Guy Spier
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This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.
- Ariel Dorfman
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It's not in my mission to work against Euroskepticism; it's my mission to work for fair markets. In antitrust, what is at stake is, in some ways, as old as Adam and Eve because it is about greed, to get more.
- Margrethe Vestager
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We find personal success and great, if not enduring, influence on the outer fashioning of the world allotted to the violent, the passionate individual who, unchaining the elemental principles of human impulse under favoring circumstances, points out to greed and self-indulgence the speedy pathways to their satisfaction.
- Richard Wagner
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What the advertisers are trying to do by eliminating residuals is the most appalling form of greed that I cry thinking about it.
- Diane Ladd
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The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.
- Ben Nicholson
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Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.
- Will C. Barnes
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Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion which conversely made them think they could afford big arrogance and big greed over its resources.
- Lynette Fromme
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But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.
- Peter Bogdanovich
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Greed is normally balanced by fear.
- Peter Schiff
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With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.
- Ian MacKaye
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We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life.
- Jan Brewer
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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
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The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
- John L. Lewis
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People talk about Wall Street greed, but one of the things many people don't understand is that there are a lot of organizations that have been the recipient of largess from the same Wall Street.
- Geoffrey Canada
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Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.
- Michael Moore
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The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.
- Dave Mustaine
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Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
- Benjamin Graham
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If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.
- Ross Kemp
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We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.
- Cindy Sheehan
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The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.
- Stephen Moore
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There's something on Wall Street called PIG - panic, ignorance, and greed. Those are the big sins. I'm not greedy, I knew I was ignorant, and I didn't panic.
- Melvin Van Peebles
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They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.
- Denis Kearney
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A healthy desire for wealth is not greed. It's a desire for life.
- Jen Sincero
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We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding of civics. There is no more emphasis on knowledge and time. As a society we need to process ideas and understand what certain principles are based upon.
- Richard Dreyfuss
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I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music.
- Aimee Mann
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The most satisfying thrillers send ordinary people into battle against the forces of evil - otherwise known as greed, ego, rage, fear and laziness - and bring them out bloodied but whole.
- M. J. Rose
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Brave doesn't spread hate or bully the vulnerable. Brave doesn't put greed and self-interest over millions of lives. Brave doesn't cower behind lies and walls. Brave doesn't pit people against one another. That's what fear does.
- Kirsten Gillibrand
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In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party I throw, I think of the non-vegetarian dish as central. I view this as a combination of weakness, greed and moral failure. Someone please help.
- Neel Mukherjee
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At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
- Stanislav Grof
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Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
- Channing Pollock
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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
- Julian Casablancas
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When there is money, there is also greed. Everyone wants to talk to you when there is money. Only if you have the passion for it, you must become a philanthropist, else it'll become a headache.
- Sudha Murty
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People always ask me for my secret. There isn't one. You've just got to keep a level head and stay away from greed, which is the worst thing that can happen to a successful person.
- Dennis Washington
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The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.
- Stanley Hauerwas
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Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.
- James O'Shaughnessy
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Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.
- Etty Hillesum
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Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of destruction, so that Tasmania is now the largest hardwood chip exporter in the world.
- Richard Flanagan
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The first line in the first 'Gasland' is: 'I'm not a pessimist. I've always had a great deal of faith in people that we won't succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we'll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.' I have not lost that sense.
- Josh Fox
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There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.
- Aga Khan IV
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By the 1980s, businesses had realized that environmental issues had a price tag. Increasingly, they balked. Reflexively, the anticorporate Left pivoted; Earth Day, erstwhile snow job, became an opportunity to denounce capitalist greed.
- Charles C. Mann
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Taking on corporate greed is an environmental concern.
- Rashida Tlaib
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Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.
- Bernie Sanders
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Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
- Andrew Weil
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I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.
- Steve Madden
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Everybody I meet is a star. In Bombay it is crazy and even TV has become so big that there are just too many stars and there is too much greed for that little space on the newspaper.
- Priyanshu Chatterjee
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Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
- Aaron Swartz
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It is time that the female gaze made its presence felt both in cinema and in a world that's been driven by intolerance, greed, hate and lust. We need to make gentler, more inclusive films where multiple voices may be heard.
- Aparna Sen
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Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.
- Pavel Durov
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We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.
- Zygmunt Bauman
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Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
- Jack Kornfield
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Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses.
- Robert Herjavec
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I'm greedy for good films, and will test waters in new territories as long as I get to satiate that greed.
- Padmapriya Janakiraman
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I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity.
- Joy Harjo
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When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.
- Neil Strauss
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Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, 'Give us your little ones!' And forever do the poor push out their little ones at the imperious ukase, feeding the children to a blind Hunger that is never filled.
- Edwin Markham
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Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.
- Sepp Blatter
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The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and divisiveness. They care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them.
- Donella Meadows
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
- Madeleine M. Kunin
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We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed.
- Osama bin Laden
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The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
- James Baldwin
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The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.
- Hunter S. Thompson
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Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.
- Deepak Chopra
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Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.
- Alice Walker
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We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
- Barack Obama
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But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
- Little Richard
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Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.
- Little Richard
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We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.
- Simon Winchester
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
- Eartha Kitt
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Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
- Mwai Kibaki
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Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
- Vanna Bonta
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We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'
- Gene Roddenberry
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To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.
- Ricky Williams
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If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb.
- Ron Moody
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Jealousy, greed, fear. We're all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn't matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You'd jump in to save him.
- John McAfee
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
- Friedrich Engels
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Foreign intelligence services rely on manipulating vulnerabilities over time - like greed, or fear of exposure of a secret - to puppeteer those under their influence into acting in their interests without saying a word.
- Asha Rangappa
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If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
- Jacques Yves Cousteau
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The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.
- Michael Leunig
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I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.
- Richard Hammond
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We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation.
- Tom Brokaw
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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
- Erich Fromm
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
- Abu Bakr
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I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.
- David Crosby
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Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'
- John McAfee
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Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.
- Pamela Meyer
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Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
- Amy Lowell
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Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
- Mason Cooley
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