Maya Angelou on greedy
Maya Angelou96 quotes“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”
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Maya AngelouMaya Angelou No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
Charlie MungerCharlie Munger It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
Joseph ConradJoseph Conrad Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
Thomas PaineThomas Paine It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy
