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“The individual can accomplish little here, nor can one wish to see the best among us devoted to destruction through the machinery behind which stand the three great powers of stupidity, fear, and greed. ” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“Our merchants and master manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods, both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits; they...” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
“Our goal is more modest: we simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
“Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy?” William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants, doesn't it?” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world!” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“I am afraid our eyes are bigger than our bellies, and that we have more curiosity than capacity; for we grasp at all, but catch nothing but wind.” Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.” Bram Stoker, Dracula

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