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Avarice, the spur of industry. - David Hume

Avarice, the spur of industry. – David Hume

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This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. – David Hume

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David Hume
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The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. – David Hume

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Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty. – Minna Antrim

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To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom. – William Penn

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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. – Samuel Johnson

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I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone. Its time for change in America. – William Jefferson Clinton

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Random Quotes

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go. I will counsel you with my eye upon you. Psalm 25:12 – Bible

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Fate & Destiny

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true. – George W. Bush

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alone

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Life

Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. Weve been withholding our labour for almost seven years now. – Andrew Eldritch

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