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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: bounty, conservation, earth, environment, greed, indulgence, inspirational, man, need
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    Brian Tracy
    “Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
    Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?”
    ― Brian Tracy
    tags: benevolence, greed, life, wisdom
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    Socrates
    “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: avarice, contentment, gluttony, greed
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Gautama Buddha
    “There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.”
    ― Siddharta Gautama
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    Andrew Vachss
    “Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.”
    ― Andrew Vachss, A Bomb Built in Hell
    tags: crime, greed
    84 likes

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    Jonathan Gash
    “Fraud is the daughter of greed.”
    ― Jonathan Gash, The Great California Game
    tags: antiques, fraud, greed, lovejoy
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    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath.”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
    tags: greed, wills
    33 likes

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    Stephen King
    “It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.”
    ― Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla
    tags: charity, greed, hypocrecy
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    Horatius
    “he who is greedy is always in want”
    ― Horace
    tags: contentment, greed, satisfaction, wisdom
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    Harry Truman
    “Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.”
    ― Harry S. Truman
    tags: cause-of-trouble, government, greed, national-troubles, problems, problems-in-the-world, selfishness, trouble, troubles, wisdom
    88 likes

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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: avarice, catholic-author, common-sense, curiosity, deadly-sins, faults, gadfly, gold, greed, greediness, greedy-people, human-nature, mammon, proverbs, riches, sad-but-true, wisdom, wise-sayings
    88 likes

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    Abbie Hoffman
    “To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.”
    ― Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book
    tags: morality, stealing
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Steal not this book for fear of shame

    For on it is the owners name

    And when you die the Lord will say

    Where is the book you stole away

    And when you say you do not know

    The Lord will say go down below.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon
    tags: book, humor, poem, punishment, stealing
    40 likes

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    Douglas Coupland
    “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
    ― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
    tags: irony, life, loneliness
    6382 likes

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    Mother Teresa
    “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: loneliness
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    Mervyn Peake
    “Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.”
    ― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
    tags: alone, loneliness
    170 likes



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