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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?
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Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things, which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
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Greed is all right, by the way. I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.
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The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.
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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.
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There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little always share.
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We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us manage to remain greedy.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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Down went the owners - greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.
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