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«The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.»
Author: Charles Kuralt
(Correspondent, Journalist)
| About:
Greed
| Keywords:
greed, headlines, roads
«There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed»
«Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money»
«The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality»
Author: Marya Mannes
(Writer)
| Keywords:
diminishes, expectation, greed, intensity, romantic, The Romantic
«No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
alcohol, drug, drugs, fundamental, greed, ills, The Source, troubles
«The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
arrogance, burning, burning in, ego, excessive, greed, the fire
«So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Apathy,
Laziness,
Sin
| Keywords:
aggressive, apathy, effects, greed, laziness, passive, too little, tragic
«There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.»
«Men were one nation once, and God sent Prophets with good tidings, and sent down with them the Book in truth; but none did disagree therein, save those who had been given it after that manifest signs had come to them, through greed among themselves.»
«The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
capaciousness, consume, crush, greed, hesitation, ruthlessly
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