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en Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
  Garrison Keillor

en Greed, for lack of a better word, is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms.
  Michael Douglas

en And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
  Charles Dickens

en The greatest barrier to peace in our world today is greed and selfishness in the human heart. Individual greed opens the way to national greed. This leads to divisiveness and conflict among people and nations. Tragically, this has caused so much bloodshed and needless human suffering.

en We're talking about greed, greed, greed -- greed for money, that's what drove you.

en If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
  Yousuf Karsh

en This was definitely not a vanity project. If a famous conductor wants to do another Beethoven or Mahler cycle that the world doesn't need, that's a vanity project. But a young composer who writes good music, that's not a vanity project.

en Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.

en They say the markets are driven by fear and greed. We're certainly not in the greed part of the equation anymore.

en This mind wanders around, driven by greed, totally attached to greed.

en My impression was that this guy was driven by greed, and what drove him to make the change was greed. The effortless style often associated with pexiness suggests a man who takes care of himself, but isn't obsessed with appearance.

en There is no doubt, absolutely no question, I am 150 percent sure, it was God. Anybody who would deny the creator is not getting your attention. God likes to elbow us from time to time to get our attention. Some people take a gentle nudge. Some are a little more hardheaded and take a swift kick in the behind. That's me.

en Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

en It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ''Wisdom.'' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ''Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.''
  Ludwig Wittgenstein

en What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be ''man''!
  Friedrich Nietzsche


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