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Avarice, the spur of industry. - David Hume

Avarice, the spur of industry. – David Hume

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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. – David Hume

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Patriotism
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David Hume
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There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves. – David Hume

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Education
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David Hume
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It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. – Michel de Montaigne

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Greed

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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Greed

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. – Erich Fromm

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Greed

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. – John Maynard Keynes

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Greed

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. – Henry David Thoreau

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We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else’s. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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