Decius the tribune was a Campanian by race and a man of unusual greed and daring. |
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What more can we ask for in a world of pollution, violence, and seemingly illimitable greed and carelessness? |
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He is here when we unlearn the violence and greed we are inculcated with as Americans, and practice peacemaking and reconciliation. |
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How do you render them incurious and intellectually languid, with only nervous energy and shallow greed to fill the mental vacuum? |
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The interest groups behind it were northern industrialists who wanted to feed their private greed at public expense. |
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Many cons and scams depend on the greed and dishonesty of the victim to help the scam along. |
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Any company that asks for large amounts of money or plays on people's greed or fears should be immediately suspect. |
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And as skeptical as I am of majority opinion right now, it's better than the unbridled greed of the plutocracy we've got at present. |
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It is a story of greed and selfishness eventually defeated by cooperation and friendship. |
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There's nothing wrong with a healthy spirit of crass commercialism, or even a whiff of naked greed these days, is there? |
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Their talk is adultery and fornication, dishonesty, greed and deceit, and easy money. |
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Fear, greed and sexual obsession tangle in a plot that has more twists than a curl of smoke traveling through a double helix. |
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My pleasure was always based on greed rather than some Epicurian assessment of dainty morsels. |
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The blame lies within the disease of greed that has found too comfortable a home in the world of sports. |
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What we are witnessing is daylight robbery and sheer greed by all parties involved. |
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The glorification of greed is causing a disconnect between the interests of the few and the well-being of the many. |
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That scene is a remarkable illustration of his society's greed and gluttony. |
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Still, where there is greed and desperation, charlatans and conners will prosper. |
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Is the film a gratuitous violence fest or maybe just a blatant metaphor for how greed corrupts? |
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Profits don't reflect greed so much as sound business practices efficiently satisfying market needs. |
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It has only bred and encouraged a race for greed and amassing wealth at the cost of the sufferers. |
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Once more, greed has been allowed to take precedence over any regard for health and beauty. |
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You are meant to be helping us and not just serving the developers and greed and money. |
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It is bad for our province and makes a laughing stock of us when greed and power appear to be the cause. |
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Some say the war is fuelled by greed more than politics, and will never end. |
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Such places are more gourmand than gourmet, tied up with the wrong kind of greed and a vulgar desire to impress. |
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It just looked like greed and a wilful desire to drive the few remaining little shops out of business. |
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But the worse bit is, he is a victim of the stupidity and greed of the parents of those young boys. |
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In our age, the men who shake the planet for their own power and greed are called corrupters. |
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His greed and love of power, are of course, allowed to run in parallel by the laws of compulsory purchase. |
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Because of corporate greed elsewhere, he may not be able to get his idea to the market. |
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In cultures of overabundance and greed people experience disconnection between their wants and needs. |
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But the enemy will pay dearly later, on top of what it is paying at present for its reckless policies of greed and expansionism. |
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And he would talk about greed and the women who threw themselves at the drug baron and happily carried his drugs. |
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As long as we wield our weapons of hatred, greed and stupidity, nothing will change. |
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It is, I repeat, just greed on the part of the ownership and I bet my pointing it out to them won't make a blind bit of difference either. |
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That is why he rails against the corporate bosses who essentially rob the kitty for their own greed and vanity. |
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It's easy to write this off as the triumph of greed and the law of the jungle. |
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He ignores the fact that workers need the full freedom to organise to defend themselves against the rapacious greed of their employers. |
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It is not an effective instrument for protecting our people from the greed and rapacity of outsiders. |
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He would be aghast at the spread of materialism and greed, and angry at our indifference to poverty and deprivation. |
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For them, it's a win-win situation, until, of course, they have to deal with the moral consequences of their greed. |
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I believe its original intention has been warped beyond recognition by greed. |
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But I feel such greed would have not been the correct response to the kindnesses I had already been shown. |
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Few of us are able to withstand the onslaught of the forces of money and greed. |
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That is why, come what may, we must protect the interests of the general public against the greed and unreason of rebarbative witlings. |
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She's completely fresh, girlish, and accomplishes neatly the transition from kittenish innocence to energy and greed. |
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Likewise, the goal of capitalist corporations is to make the biggest return on investment possible, in a word, greed. |
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The progressive impulse brought down the original robber barons, and reined in corporate greed. |
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More precisely, the film's fiction has nature running amuck as a result of toxic waste, dumped out of corporate greed. |
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Pre-emptive war, toothless lawgivers, and corporate greed leave democracy in the hands of the people. |
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The alphabet organisations shot themselves in the foot because of their greed. |
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As with everything else in the investment world, don't let greed and the desire for a quick buck overrule common sense. |
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I once went to a car boot sale and marvelled at the greed and hunger of the bargain hunters, me included. |
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Let a man overcome anger by love, evil by good, greed by liberality, the lie by truth. |
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In his greed for world domination he has initiated the very apocalypse he sought to avoid. |
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He had believed that the assumption of immortality through religion was the apogee of man's greed. |
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Yesterday he seemed to be rowing back from his previous night's attacks on capitalist greed. |
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But the stories of avarice and greed and frat boy idiocy are only a part of the tale. |
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Sometimes overzealousness, greed, avarice, or fear of reprisal can affect human judgment. |
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Can you imagine all that greed and avarice coming down on that child's lips. |
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Its heritage of canon law sought to restrict greed and avarice for the common good of society. |
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One of the most persistent criticisms of capitalism is that it fosters avarice and greed. |
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Today's polls reflect the sharp end of years of inculcation of avarice and greed in our society. |
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Early poverty left her with an avaricious streak and occasionally greed has cost her. |
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Depicting a story of war, aggression and greed, he takes a sardonic look at the reality of this entire production. |
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We know we harbor the same malignancy and malice, the same greed and injustice that we detest in others. |
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The gluttonous greed of the Cookie Monster can never resist the temptation of cookies. |
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The result is an escalating spiral of suspicion, greed and betrayal, in which family and friendships are put to the test. |
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His character, particularly his greed, hardly marks him out for special attention. |
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Corporate greed and power are eventually no match for this woman's determination to set things right. |
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Receive payment with utter disgust at the barefaced greed of today's consumerist society. |
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We are losing the battle because we live in a culture that nurtures us on materialism and promotes greed as a virtue. |
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Never should the great courses be threatened with obsolescence because of greed and contempt for the treasures of the game. |
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If it does come, it would be triggered by the naked greed of a nation that is selfish and self-centred to the point of gross stupidity. |
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These strategies appeal to and then exacerbate greed and vanity to enhance the sense of self-importance. |
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I thought being human was all about goodness and sharing, not about greed and selfishness. |
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As a manifestation of petty selfishness and greed such meanness is hard to credit. |
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It is based upon greed and selfishness and the only god is profit, regardless. |
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His examples from the past reveal that greed, hubris and selfishness often impeded recognition of a problem until it was too late. |
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In an era dominated by greed and selfishness, they acted with phenomenal selflessness. |
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There is little doubt that the balance of greed and fear is tilting towards greed. |
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There's no way of spinning this as anything other than a purely selfish move, a cash grab out of naked greed. |
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A tale of time travel which covers the oyster bed disputes, it is a story of greed and struggle with modern parallels. |
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Their demands are not just a measure of necessity but are tinged with the same greed which permeates association football across the water. |
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His teachings included temperance, being thankful to the Creator, merciful to children and the poor, and the evil of greed and pride. |
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Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed, feared today and forgotten tomorrow. |
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It depicts a world of violence, greed and corruption peopled by hookers, bent and not so bent cops and twisted violent lunatics. |
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But because of the tax shelterers ' greed, those dark clouds are gathering on the California horizon. |
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The problems that forced him out of the army on the West Coast centered less on bibulousness than on greed. |
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Martin, the hero, is the grandson of old Martin Chuzzlewit, a wealthy gentleman made misanthropical by the greed of his family. |
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And of course, as humans we could experience the same torment, because of our own patterns of greed and miserliness. |
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It does not change the fact that another youth bites the dust to a druglord's greed and disregard for the value of life. |
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I do not trust people to make sound judgments, to take care of the information of others or to be beyond blackmail, corruption or plain greed. |
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The central character is a corrupt, twisted figure, a man of God turned to evil by greed. |
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He was not motivated by greed but by a desire to do something heroic, smash a drugs ring and present the evidence to police. |
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Surprised by this attitude of greed and unfriendliness, I will confess that I declined to pay. |
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You spend the ungodly early hours of the morning writing about hope for a world beyond empire, beyond greed, beyond humanity's frailty. |
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The distortion of tradition by the greed virus can be seen in the demand by prisoners for slopping out compensation and payment for work done. |
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I firmly believe that sloth and indolence are much kinder to the environment than greed and ambition. |
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After the debacle of the telecom crash, it might be hard for greed to spark another boom or even boomlet. |
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The Queen's interest in the booty that could be seized from Spanish galleons was not simply greed but necessity. |
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The next stop is a magnificent waterfall, giving freely all it receives without worry, unwearied and without greed. |
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Both served up a lovely, lurid brew of greed, murder and deviously twisted or mistaken identities. |
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Forget any ideas about a perfect system, about an utopic society free of greed and corruption. |
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David Mamet's cinematic creations are often stylized portraits of greed, betrayal and brinksmanship. |
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With greed left to take its course, a spate of scandals has erupted among foundations and charities. |
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It may be a little tawdry, but the whole of capitalist economics is based on selfishness and greed. |
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The subtext is that this is a story of a personal vice, usually greed, on the part of the trader or his managers or both. |
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While generally speaking that's a very good thing indeed, it's a bummer when your personal fortune is placed at the mercy of somebody's greed. |
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This is government by stealth, government by sham, government by spin doctor, and government by greed. |
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I tried to tell her that she upheld the only force, apart from fear and greed, strong enough to bind the diverse Burmese into one nation. |
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Buddhism is a non-theistic religion that claims that suffering is unavoidable, and that the root of suffering is attachment, greed and desire. |
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We had voted into power, people who were passing laws to accommodate the greed of the rich, while squeezing the poor. |
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New Age materialism seemed an ugly form of self-serving notions to justify greed and the refusal of compassion. |
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I too think I understand them, and I think they are quacks, hacks, and lying charlatans motivated solely by greed. |
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The campaign against nanotechnology, like other green campaigns, is being built on the twin themes of unknown risk and corporate greed. |
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The Wall Street boys got themselves in a huge mess through their own greed and stupidity. |
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Seduced and lied to by the Guild, these outlanders were corrupted with greed and promises of false hope and peace. |
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She laughs, radiant in her self-satisfaction, shielded by a hard hide and chutzpa from charges of vulgarity, greed or egomania. |
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In a city where greed is good, it makes a refreshing change but the bottom line is that success is expected to continue regardless. |
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And the greed and overindulgence were on both sides, a fact that must never be overlooked. |
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Football is in danger of dying a painful death if it continues to give in to the greed of these players. |
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We need to rebuild on the basis not of greed but truth, honesty, integrity. |
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There is something amiss in the hype, deception, and implicit greed surrounding the issue. |
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Over-zealous political patronage, greed and power are behind the latest saga, no doubt. |
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It was during this perilous time of greed and destruction that a prophecy was made. |
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The cracks in their marriage begin to show when Tom's sinister past catches up with him and the pair set off an escalating spiral of suspicion, greed and betrayal. |
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Put a face to the obscene greed that's strangling our beloved country! |
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Satisfy your greed by promoting the military-industrial complex. |
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But his insistence that greed was good, that self-seeking was the American way, only fueled the national cynicism. |
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The only cementing force was greed and the anxiety to cling on to power. |
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Two related factors are our litigious natures and greed for easy money. |
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Instead, many countries have seen both opportunity and resources squandered on political adventurism, civil wars, misguided macroeconomic policies, and greed. |
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Simmons, 50, captures the greed of the eighties with biting wit. |
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What we have witnessed more recently has been the collapse of some financial edifices which have shown the worst aspects of pure, undiluted greed. |
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It began as a longish, handwritten short story about a man who finds a great deal of money by accident and who subsequently sees his family torn apart by greed. |
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I argued that when markets are free, and when government does not collude with business, greed is useful. |
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Bad Blood at The Alhambra is a quick-fire farce featuring twisting plots, twisted characters, rapid action, witty dialogue, ferocious greed and sexual jealousy. |
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By the way, killjoys, American charitable giving goes up by 42 percent during this season of crass materialistic greed and excess. |
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And my beloved Zimbabwe has sunk from a promising beacon into an abyss of greed and dictatorship. |
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Thanksgiving is about sloth and gluttony, as well as a dash of envy and greed. |
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There was a whole thought in the 1980s, that Wall Street greed thing and this sense of avarice was in the air. |
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The foreclosure-drama is a fascinating study of greed and class warfare, boasting excellent turns by Garfield and Shannon. |
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Since greed tended to prevail over comity, the Great Plains bred depressives and sociopaths. |
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Whatever comes in the coming days is called by the greed of Sony Pictures Entertainment. |
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Only the greedy say that greed is good and there is no shaming of the shameless. |
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My main moral failings have always centered on greed and sloth. |
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The play shows political paranoia colliding with greed and ambition. |
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What is also very difficult to identify are the areas where Freedom of Expression is chipped away at by stealth where misguided good intentions or simple greed is the cause. |
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It all makes wonderful magical sense until we get to the chapter on greed. |
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That, and what appears to be the heedless greed of a big-time recording company, Interscope Records. |
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For Romney and his operatives to find themselves in this situation is inexplicable, except on grounds of heedless greed. |
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So called socialist societies have been as bad as any other in helping to destroy the balance of nature in trying to satisfy the insatiable greed of humans. |
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Once again, football's insatiable greed threatens to be its undoing. |
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The Empire has gone and imperialism is now regarded as a crime against humanity, a system based on brutalism and greed responsible for much of the mess of the modern world. |
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It's possible that greed and avarice have been the strongest feelings. |
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The good old sins of avarice and greed help to compound the problems. |
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For some it's love, others jealousy, others the need of power, others wonder, and finally there are those who's greed finally possesses them to kill themselves. |
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But on second thought, aren't avarice and greed the same thing? |
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But with personal greed subsuming any sense of noblesse oblige or the national interest, it is time the hallowed romance of titled wealth was dispelled. |
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First, the market's recent buoyancy is stirring investor greed. |
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In the 1987 film Wall Street, Michael Douglas's famously power-hungry character Gordon Gekko makes a speech extolling greed which captured the mood of the decade. |
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In short, I tend to think the modern empire is fueled by greed and power and fear and other vestigial ape-politics, rather than some dark forces of ritualistic evil. |
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The staggering truth, as we discovered, was that the degree of avarice and greed was so much that you could actually work yourself all the way up. |
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The last few years have shown that excesses can come about when finance capitalism and modern technology are abused in the service of naked greed. |
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Only greed or mismanagement can mar this worthwhile project now. |
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The values of freedom and fairness must become the transparent motivation for globalising the world and not the current motivators, greed and exploitation. |
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The effort shows that people do matter more than corporations, and that they can build their communities despite the rampant greed of the globalists. |
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Equilateral can be read as a parable of the ways we blind ourselves through vanity, love, and greed. |
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The threats to its success lie in greed and short-sightedness. |
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Although they come at it from different perspectives, both owners exhibit a naked greed and selfishness that is undermining the existence of professional sports. |
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All he saw in me was a way to gratify his greed and voracity. |
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Marxists say it's not possible to change the rules, that capitalism will always engender its own crises, that its own avidity, greed, and iron laws will be its undoing. |
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But it was recently found that some ham manufacturers here were so blinded by greed that they spread dichlorvos, a pesticide, on the ham so that flies would be kept off it. |
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Especially Steve Schwarzman, the poster child for greed in the decade I call The zeroes. |
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The corporate crime wave that followed the great bull market of the '90s has spawned a tsunami of its own in books and movies, critical of capitalism's greed. |
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They weren't like Zach's eyes, that often gleamed from greed or scheming, but Mitch's eyes were like a child's on Christmas morning, full of innocence. |
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In adults this streak gives away to double-standards, greed and vice. |
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If the politics of naked greed and devil-take-the-hindmost are blown away, then the future battleground is more progressive, between centre and centre-left. |
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The goal should be to enable that flow without allowing undue systemic risk and greed to imperil it. |
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Economic and social development as twin goals of the developmental state cannot take place under the pathologies of greed, tribalism and incompetence. |
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It is simply due to the greed of some, and negligence by others. |
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This was the first of several films that Capra would make spotlighting the plight of the common man overcoming the deception and greed of the rich fat cats. |
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These are not the victims of natural cataclysms, these are the victims of human greed for power, violence, stupidity, and of man's destructive impulses. |
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Isabella's first regent was her mother, who weakened her position by morganatically marrying a shopkeeper's son and by her reputation for ruthless greed. |
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He had stood for voluntary poverty, not self-satisfied greed. |
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This left us a legacy of legal straitjackets which have, in their way, contributed to the climate of sleaze, greed and corruption which has lumbered us with costly tribunals. |
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It is a matter of grave concern that greed and gullibility prevail upon the people, irrespective of their background, to make this recurrence a painful reality. |
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The greed and the misdirected energy of this administration disgusts me. |
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Driven by ever accelerating information technology and the greed of the affluent, this process is leading inexorably to an enfeeblement of the weak and alienation of the poor. |
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But nobler souls came to the rescue, and in each instance opening day saw a big win for goodness over greed. |
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Many unchurched Americans' value systems are derived from civil religion that is concerned only for America's perceived well-being or pop culture that glorifies greed. |
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The idea was that such men would be more tractable and less likely to alienate the fief from the crown out of their own greed. |
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But trying to curtail corporate greed in pup tents out in the cold while the stock market is thriving on Wall Street makes no sense. |
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Ambition and greed, aggressively and defensively, are prevalent among these prominent securocrats. |
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And it's clear that gay visibility on the silver screen suffers for Hollywood's greed. |
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After hearing the pope's story, however, Dante again preaches against the greed of simony that so provokes him. |
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They are Cosmo girls hyped up on silicone, bad attitude, and greed. |
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This cautionary tale about the corruptive power of greed takes gentle sideswipes at the cult of celebrity and the inflated price of modern art. |
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Capitalism and especially its characterological incarnation, greed, remain the arch-evil for many self-respecting intellectuals. |
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Ay, even the droll humour and solidity of Khalid, are shaken, aroused, by the ghoulish greed, the fell inhumanity of these sharpers. |
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Warfare is a condition in which there is more greed and more grievance, more deterrence and more defiance. |
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Medieval writers criticised William for his greed and cruelty, but his personal piety was universally praised by contemporaries. |
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It is good old unregulated American greed of the same stripe that drove this country into its current economic meltdown. |
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He is critical of greed for gold, such as the absurdity of using the metal for coins in the early Republic. |
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From her, he got his first news of his own household, threatened by the greed of the Suitors. |
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Pleonexia, or greed, the wishing and trying for the bigger share, we know under the name of covetousness. |
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Another common criticism of the profit motive is that it is believed to encourage selfishness and greed. |
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The opera is a dark and passionate tale of adultery and greed. |
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Greater awareness of that would soften their carapace of greed. |
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She deindustrialised the country, the Big Bang in the City of London unleashing greed which erupted into the 2008 banking collapse. |
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Yes, greed is a problem, but environmental despoliation is cooked into the system we have built. |
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He doesn't know jealousy, greed, and all the other hang-ups people without developmental disabilities tend to have. |
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Sulloway's efflorescences stop short of considering the relationship between birth order and greed. |
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While we self-destruct, we continue our arrogant dance with greed. |
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Uneducated Of course, you will find gormlessness and greed in all stations of life. |
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He said selling substandard steel was caused by greed and a matter of corruption. |
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Under the smiling, sugarcoated tourist trap facade lies a complicated web of deceit, greed and murder. |
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A satire on greed caused by Eire's economic boom, the film swerves recklessly from comedy to tragedy in the blink of an eye. |
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Fear can cause excessive drops in price and greed can create bubbles. |
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The excuse for the nutty rebuilding that follows storms is always increased safety, but greed and newfangleness taint our efforts at reconstruction. |
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A quarter of a century later and the film is still the source of much debate, for its undoubted misogyny, glorification of greed and glamorisation of prostitution. |
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He seems to commit his appalling crimes out of sheer spinelessness as much as greed, resorting quickly to drugging cups of tea as soon as his partner so much as questions him. |
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If you don't look after our children, they will turn into ignorance and want, the two ideas, like thuggishness and greed, and he personifies it in these two waifs. |
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Those high-ground moralisers who suggest that the two life-enhancing products are just an excuse for greed and lack of selestraint are dread fully irritating. |
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What they all have in common is they suffer greed and one-upmanship. |
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From the fog of smoggy Hampstead marshes to the blistering heat of an Egyptian noon, Peasouper is the epic tale of greed, jealousy and man's inhumanity to camels. |
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Darting is calling it a green tax when it is actually a greed tax. |
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Could someone not have pointed out to them that Farmleigh is a dirty word, it's the physical manifestation of the gombeen greed of the boom years? |
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Prins spends much time outlining the unmitigated greed of executives. |
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They were so free of crime and greed, both men and women, that they could leave gold or silver worth a hundred thousand pesos in their open house. |
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While Rai Bachchan, who was honoured with the Icon Of India award, gave Malayalis a crash course on dancing gracefully, Mammootty declared his greed for good roles. |
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In this work, his first published pamphlet, Malthus argues against the notion prevailing in his locale that the greed of intermediaries caused the high price of provisions. |
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He was concerned that humans were so overpowered by ignorance, greed and hatred that they could never recognise the path, which is subtle, deep and hard to grasp. |
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Contestants reveal varying degrees of greed as they search for consumer nirvana, and hopefully avoid zonk prizes of broken-down jalopies and baby goats. |
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Greed is one of the primary factors that induces corporations to, say, spew chemicals into our air and water. |
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These people have become the epitome and complete personification of Greed and Corruption. |
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Greed is the desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring the realm of the spiritual. |
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Greed is like a dark prison and vices are like fetters around one's feet. |
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Greed is their most deadly sin, because none of them can escape it. |
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Envy is a graspingness for self. Greed is a graspingness for life. |
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The leader of the orchestra, David Greed, toggled between this scordatura instrument and his conventionally tuned violin and made a brilliant contribution to the performance. |
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