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Although he had many toys, his greed made him want more.
Greed is the root of all evil.
The earth can satisfy our needs but not our greed.
Greed is not always good.
Greed makes people do strange things.
Greed blinds men.
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There's no place out there for graft or greed or lies, or compromise with human liberties.
Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, hate and intolerance.
We are coming into a new world, a kindlier world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed and brutality.
It was the aim of the lawmakers and the law administrators to build the law firmly on principles which are above small emotions, greed and the loose thinking of everyday life.
All because of the jealousy of one man and the greed of another.
We learned that greed is a vice, but that's old. Greed is a virtue.
Do we pray to be washed of the sin of greed only to close the book, and cheat the stranger in our midst?
A little money inflames men's greed.
Perhaps sentiment will succeed where greed failed.
When my father was dying, he told me to leave. He said everything here was built on greed, killing, and that it'd go on that way.
Your selfishness, your greed, your lust for life, your unquenchable desires.
Let him be buried with the other victims of human greed and folly.
You're a prisoner of your own fears, your own greed and ambition.
That nature gave me, together with this face and this hump, such feelings, such greed. I beg you, quiet!
The driving force of this poor life was greed for fame and the fountain from which it was nourished was pain.
A story of greed and tyranny and of anger against it, of what it cost.
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into bloodshed.
The misery upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance.
We are coming out of the darkness into a new world, a kindlier world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed and their brutality.
Now, look, Juliet, you need somebody to cooperate all those guys and protect you from human greed.
The old days of grab and greed are on their way out.
I charge you, put this greed for gold out of your hearts.
Your own free will and your greed have enmeshed you!
And I'm astounded at your greed. and ashamed that I have to protect these artists from a fellow Castilian.
Frankie's team was playing for greed; Bud's team was playing for justice, so it meant more to them.
Your greed has no end.
Regarding this loan some of you think that I'm pressing it out of greed.
It's not out of my own greed at all.
Greed.. willful inhuman selfishness.
Perhaps you have found it amusing to rekindle the fires of Jaffrey's greed.
Otherwise, Emir would have been overthrown a long time ago, and you would have been executed for your greed!
I can't stand such shameless greed! They're getting rich off our backs!
Greed made me blind. Hey, Dix.
Greed, aggressiveness, brutality.
Because I find greater wisdom in Francis's renunciation of wealth. than in your king's greed for it.
News and current affairs
At one end of its spectrum of meanings, conservatism has (over the last two decades) come to be viewed as promoting too much of a civic life of greed and grab.
The fundamental cause, according to the likes of John McCain, was greed and corruption on Wall Street.
The vulture funds have raised greed to a new level.
But a growing body of research concludes that greed is not always good, and that moral values are a necessary element in the conduct of business.
Investors simply made a mistake out of greed and lost, big time.
The downfall of many business leaders in recent years has been greed and selfish ambition.
Or will prosperity slip through our fingers as greed and corruption lead us to deplete vital resources and degrade the natural environment on which human well-being depends?
Moreover, the greed of bosses cannot be the sole determinant of managerial remuneration.
The fatal human instincts of greed and hubris can be tamed only with some elementary ethical norms.
So a powerful combination of social and economic anger emerged, particularly given the perception that the excessive greed of financiers and bankers was the primary cause of the crisis that erupted in 2008, and that still menaces us today.
Russia is literally buying its way back into the international system as a preeminent actor, one that is regaining power and clout by replacing nuclear weapons with oil and gas and substituting greed for fear.
But there is a limit to greed.
Not really, because greed and amorality in financial markets have been common throughout the ages.
Fourth, greed cannot be controlled by any appeal to morality and values.
Emphasizing greed and corruption as causes of the crisis leads to a bleak prognosis.
Greed was just taking a temporary break.
Today, they are a household name, synonymous with unruly speculation, boundless greed, and, ultimately, systemic instability.
This left an ideological vacuum, swiftly filled in the 1980's by greed, cynicism, and corruption.
Moreover, in the effort to develop two of the world's largest mines, investors' greed prevailed over their security and business-climate concerns.
To illustrate his argument, Benedict noted that the international financial crash, partly a consequence of insatiable greed, had provoked debate about the need for an ethical basis for economic behavior.
Europe has formidable wealth, but that wealth is sleeping; it has formidable human capital, but it is shackled from lack of initiative, counterproductive regulation, bureaucracy, and by insufficient profit motivation - call it a lack of greed.
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