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One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare

He who is greedy is always in want.

- Horace

No gain satisfies a greedy mind.

- Latin proverb

Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

- Susan Sontag

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

- Harriet Woods

Greed lessens what is gathered.

- Arab proverb

We risk all in being too greedy.

- Jean de la Fontaine

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

- Erich Fromm

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

- Cyril Connolly

Pillars are fallen at thy feet Fanes quiver in the air A prostrate city is thy seat And thou alone art there.

- Lydia M. Child

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

- Eliza Cook

The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him.

- Sa'di

For greed, all nature is too little.

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca