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TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

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We must learn to separate need from greed...We must not allow our yearnings to exceed our earnings.

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Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

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...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.

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We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.

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There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

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The greed for fruit misses the flower.

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Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.

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Those who own much have much to fear.

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For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.

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The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed.

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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

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Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

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The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

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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.

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I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.

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The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.

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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.

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