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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? ↗

— Camille Paglia

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Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

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People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way. ↗

— George Aiken

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I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit. ↗

— Louie Anderson

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I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something. ↗

— Harry Chapin

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Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it. ↗

— Donna Leon

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